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Shalom Freedman on Terror and Liberalism
March 1, 2006 |
Shalom Freedman
Waking Up the West Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman, W. W. Norton, 2002, 220 pp. Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
The Quest for Democratic Political Reforms in the Middle East and the Prevailing Arab Political Culture
March 1, 2005 |
David Govrin
President Bush's perception of democracy as being at the forefront of American foreign policy is a change from the traditional U.S. policy in the Middle East of realpolitik - supporting the stability of friendly leaders no matter how autocratic they are. The fundamental political culture of Muslim Arab societies is based on the unquestionable sovereignty of God, and democracy and popular sovereignty, in its Western sense, appear to be contrary to this concept.
Communal Democracy and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish Political Tradition
April 27, 1993
This article describes the emergence ofliberal democracy, then compares and contrasts liberal democracy with communal democracy, showing the latter to be a prior form of democratic self-government. It then discusses the two in the perspective of self-government and rights, the two dimensions of democracy. Having given the United States as the best example of liberal democracy and Switzerland as the best modern example of communal democracy, it then goes on to explore the Jewish political tradition and how it is also an example of communal democracy. The article then turns to the crisis of modernity and the Jewish polity and how the modern commitment to liberal democracy won over a majority of Jews even as it posed problems for the Jewish polity, examining classical Judaism and pluralism, looking for accommodations between the two in the contemporary Jewish polity.
Letter to a Liberal American Friend
September 15, 1992