Promoting Democracy Abroad: Policy and Performance - Couverture rigide

Burnell, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1412818427 ISBN 13 : 9781412818421

Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Promoting democracy has grown from a small, little- known activity to a high-profile endeavor. It now involves academia, think tanks, and the popular media. The number of countries and organizations, inter-governmental, non-governmental, as well as governmental involved in supporting the spread of democracy is now legion. Countries touched by these efforts include a majority of all the world's states and some independent territories that are not yet fully sovereign.

The definitional boundaries between promoting democracy and international advocacy and defense of human rights and "good governance" are not precise. Similarly, the concept of promoting democracy itself is not uniformly accepted. It has become a slogan that attracts both fervent support and grave condemnation. For Burnell, promoting democracy refers to a wide range of non-coercive attempts to spread democracy abroad for whatever reason. At its heart, it is political intervention in the domestic affairs of other countries that seeks to affect the distribution of power, whether by patient and non-violent involvement or more urgent action, democracy assistance projects form a core activity.

Burnell holds that participation in the democracy assistance industry will continue to grow. However, the industry's progress up until now has in part been contingent on the progress of democratization itself. The slowdown that is currently happening in the advance of freedom and democracy around the world, and the strength shown by leading authoritarian or semi-authoritarian regimes, must raise questions about the outlook for democracy promotion. If democracy promotion and assistance are to be fit for the future, then the need for a broadly based, appropriately contextualized examination of the policy and the performance is greater now than at any time in the past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Burnell is professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick. He was founding joint editor of the journal Democratization and the accompanying book series Democratization Studies. His books includeForeign Aid in a Changing World, Funding Democratization, and Promoting Democracy Abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412818427
• ISBN 13: 9781412818421
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 338
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• Personne responsable: non disponible