Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Emerge! Datum: dinsdag 23 september 2014 14:34 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 523 Amsterdam, September 23rd, 2014 EVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST - ELZA S. MAALOUF While the social democracies of Western Europe claim to have the most representative model, their failure to integrate their large migrant population is a clear sign that something is amiss. Would the approach to the issue of governance back then be different knowing how human intelligence and cultural complexity has evolved over the last 25 centuries? Would “the rule of the people” still be the central theme of democracy after witnessing the political and economic paralysis that has gripped the West in recent years and after seeing the results of the one-person, one-vote system that descended Iraq into a civil war, brought to power the brutal regimes of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in Gaza? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/maalouf1.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html