This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide
students with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and
contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda.
Specifically, this textbook examines democracy promotion through
seeking to answer, from the perspective of an approach informed by
'critical theory', a set of important questions often posed to
democracy promoters, such as: Who is involved in democracy
promotion today and what kinds of power relations are embedded in
it? Is democracy promotion driven by the values or interests of key
actors? Is democracy promotion regime-change by another name? Is
democracy promotion 'context-sensitive' or an imposition of Western
powers? Is democracy promotion about achieving liberal economic
reform in target states? Is democracy promotion a tool of the
powerful, a form of hegemonic control of target populations? The
book suggests a set of provocative answers to these questions and
also puts forward a set of challenges for democracy promoters and
supporters to take on today. Democracy Promotion serves as an
effective introduction to an increasingly topical policy agenda for
students and general readers and, at the same time, seeks to
advance an important set of new critical perspectives for
practitioners and policy-makers of democracy promotion to consider.
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