Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion - Do All Good Things Go Together? (Hardcover, New)

The agenda of external actors often includes a number of objectives that do not necessarily and automatically go together. Fostering security and stability in semi-authoritarian regimes collides with policies aimed at the support of processes of democratization prone to conflict and destabilization. Meanwhile, the promotion of national self-determination and political empowerment might lead to forms of democracy, partially incompatible with liberal understandings. These conflicting objectives are often problematized as challenges to the effectiveness of international democracy promotion. This book presents systematic research about their emergence and effects. The contributing authors investigate (post-) conflict societies, developing countries, and authoritarian regimes in Southeast Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. They identify the socio-economic and political conditions in the recipient country, the interaction between international and local actors, and the capacity of international and local actors as relevant for explaining the emergence of conflicting objectives. And they empirically show that faced with conflicting objectives donors either use a 'wait and see'-approach (i.e. not to act to overcome such conflicts), they prioritize security, state-building and development over democracy, or they compromise democracy promotion with other goals. However, convincing strategies for dealing with such conflicts still need to be devised. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Democratization Special Issues
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Julia Leininger • Sonja Grimm • Tina Freyburg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-82590-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	0-415-82590-3
Barcode:	9780415825900

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