Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion write by Julia Leininger. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Special Issue: Do All Good Things Go Together?
Special Issue: Do All Good Things Go Together? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Special Issue: Do All Good Things Go Together? write by Julia Leininger. This book was released on 2012. Special Issue: Do All Good Things Go Together? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Justice and Peace
Justice and Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice and Peace write by Caroline Fehl. This book was released on 2019-07-05. Justice and Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies the justice concerns of political actors in important international regimes and international and domestic conflicts and traces their effects on peace and conflict. The book demonstrates that such justice concerns play an ambivalent role for the resolution of conflicts and maintenance of order. While arrangements that actors perceive as just will provide a good basis for peaceful relations, the pursuit of justice can create conflicts or make existing ones more difficult to resolve. The Chapter "Justice from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Impact of the Revolution in Human Sciences on Peace Research and International Relations" by Harald Müller is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
The Political Invention of Fragile States
The Political Invention of Fragile States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Invention of Fragile States write by Sonja Grimm. This book was released on 2016-04-14. The Political Invention of Fragile States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation, examining how the ‘fragile states’ concept was framed by policy makers to describe reality in accordance with their priorities in the fields of development and security. Contributors investigate the instrumental use of the ‘state fragility’ label in the legitimisation of Western policy interventions in countries facing violence and profound poverty. They also emphasise the agency of actors ‘on the receiving end’, describing how the elites and governments in so-called ‘fragile states’ have incorporated and reinterpreted the concept to fit their own political agendas. A first set of articles examines the role played by the World Bank, the OECD, the European Union and the G7+ in the transnational diffusion of the concept, which is understood as a critical element in the new discourse on international aid and security. A second set of papers employs three case studies (Sudan, Indonesia and Uganda) to explore the processes of appropriation, reinterpretation and the strategic use of the ‘fragile state’ concept. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Progress, Pluralism, and Politics
Progress, Pluralism, and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Progress, Pluralism, and Politics write by David Williams. This book was released on 2021-01-13. Progress, Pluralism, and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities. In Progress, Pluralism, and Politics David Williams examines the colonial and anti-colonial arguments of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, and L.T. Hobhouse. Williams locates their ambivalent attitude towards European conquest and colonial rule in a set of tensions between the impact of colonialism on European states, the possibilities of progress in distant and diverse places, and the relationship between universalism and cultural pluralism. In so doing he reveals some of the central ambiguities that characterize the ways that liberal thought has dealt with the reality of an illiberal world. Of particular importance are appeals to various forms of universal history, attempts to mediate between the claims of identity and the reality of difference, and the different ways of thinking about the achievement of liberal goods in other places. Pointing to key elements in still ongoing debates within liberal states about how they should relate to illiberal places, Progress, Pluralism, and Politics enriches the discussion on political thought and the relationship between liberalism and colonialism.
