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Promoting Democracy Abroad - Policy and Performance (Paperback)
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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.
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