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I’ve been in both Puerto Rico and Washington DC since my last post.
Update: Puerto Rican politics very messy right now. Shout out to my friend Laurent at Liberation, who has earned honorary membership to the Danish-Puerto Rican Society for bringing news from la isla to France. Merci.
DC was host to conference about democracy and islam. Update: Bad news is islamist parties only pretend to be democratic out of strategic interests, good news is they seem to become more democratic in the process. Also, the only people to use the word ‘terrorism’ at the conference were representatives of the American government. The schism between the concerns of democracy scholars, and USAID and MEPI were remarkable. Polite specialists on Middle East politics simply smiled as heads of both organisations told fairy tale accounts of US motivations for spreading democracy. Questions on Israel/Palestine were few, but awkward.
If you want to read more, you’ll have to keep an eye on oD. Update: Next stop on my global tour is Germany, for AnkCon. Ever wonder how to save the world from climate doom?
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