Promoting Democracy Abroad Policy and Performance
Auteur : Burnell Peter
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.
Date de parution : 08-2011
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
World Development Report; promotion; Democracy Assistance; assistance; Democracy Promotion; international; Autocracy Promotion; International Democracy Promoters; autocracy; Civil Society; International Democracy Support; Democracy Support; semi-authoritarian; Democracy Assistance Projects; rule; Semi-authoritarian Rule; Peter Burnell; Western Style Liberal Democracy; Legislative Strengthening; Democracy Aid; Democracy Assistance Effort; Democratic Peace Thesis; Democracy Support Activities; Autocratic Opening; International Democracy Assistance; Global Public Goods; Public Goods Theory; Democracy Promotion Strategy; Domestic Political Impact; International Public Goods; Organization Of American States; UN