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[Jonathan Rauch] on the idea of a [Community Of Democracies] caucus within and outside the UN. In 1996, a private group called the United Nations Association of the United States of America floated the idea of a caucus solely for democracies. With 120 or so nations (out of 191 U.N. members), such a caucus could serve as a powerful counterweight to the traditional caucuses... "United Nations" is an oxymoron. Democracies and dictatorships are mongoose and cobra, with no real hope of uniting except opportunistically. But a community of democracies - that might just work. It already works in NATO and the EU. (Open Society)
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