Democracy Promotion

Bridoux, Jeff; Kurki, Milja

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“…Christensen sees that democracy promotion suffered a backlash during the 2000s for assisting 'explicitly pro-western' electoral candidates in post-Soviet Europe around the time of the so-called 'Color Revolutions'. For Bridoux and Kurki (2014), democracy promotion initiatives from both the USA and the European Union tend to assume a restricted liberal and decontextualized model of democracy often linked with neoliberal economic views and in some cases to 'regime change' initiatives.…”

Section: A Definition Of Dependent Democracy Coming From a Historic-s...mentioning

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Towards a theory of dependent democracy

Arévalo

2023

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Democracy is seen today as being in erosion or crisis both in the Global North and South. This article puts forward the concept of ‘dependent democracy’ in order to explain that much of the lack of success of democracy in the South in guaranteeing political participation and economic inclusion and wellbeing for the majority of the population is due to a specific tendency of democracy there. Adapting some insights from the more economics focused Dependency theory towards a more contemporary point of view from political sociology and international political sociology, dependent democracy is understood as a democracy that exists in a subaltern position within the hierarchical, post-imperial and neo-imperial global capitalist order. Dependent democracies thus tend to be less ‘democracies’ and more ‘oligarchies’ within a form of government in the South that can be understood as existing in a global pyramid of semi-peripheries, middle peripheries and outer peripheries.

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Section: A Definition Of Dependent Democracy Coming From a Historic-s...mentioning

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Towards a theory of dependent democracy

Arévalo

2023

Thesis Eleven

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“…Several avenues towards reconnection with empirical practice have been opened in recent years. These range from calls to greater engagement with practitioners and policy makers (Bridoux and Kurki, 2014; Kurki, 2011), to reflections on the critical potential of experiences of exile (Beattie, 2015) or teaching and pedagogical activities (Caraccioli, 2018; Hom, 2017). It entails calls for the need to rethink the place of ‘human beings’ in International Relations (Jacobi and Freyberg-Inan, 2012, 2015) and attempts to provide historically grounded discussions of key critical concepts previously discussed in a philosophical mode (Hoseason, 2021).…”

Section: Towards a Historical–sociological Approach To Grand Narrativesmentioning

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Post-Eurocentric grand narratives in critical international theory

Saramago

2021

European Journal of International Relations

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Critical international theory is confronted with a fundamental ‘problem of orientation’, whose answer defines its capacity to critically analyse world politics. This problem derives from how the capacity for critique is inherently connected with the need to, at least partially, escape time- and space-bound points of view and attain a more cosmopolitan perspective that permits an assessment of the regressive/progressive tendencies of the human past, present and possible futures. The search for this cosmopolitan standpoint of orientation has frequently led to a reliance on grand narratives of human development from the perspective of which critical orientation can be disclosed. However, grand narratives themselves have frequently relied on metaphysical categories and stadial conceptions of history that reproduce forms of Eurocentrism that ultimately undermine their adequacy as means of orientation. A fundamental suspicion of grand narratives and need for ‘reflexivity’ that discloses forms of exclusion embedded in theoretical perspectives have thus become common topics in the field. However, this growing concern with reflexivity is also associated with a tendency for greater philosophical abstraction and a growing gap between theory and practice. This article considers the role of grand narratives in critical international theory and explores the possibility of post-Eurocentric and post-philosophical grand narratives that provide an alternative answer to the problem of orientation and recover the link between theory and practice. With reference to recent developments in the field, namely, the work of Richard Devetak and Andrew Linklater, the article considers the possibility of a historical–sociological approach to grand narratives.

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“…25 This also holds for democracy promotion, at least when we include international governmental organizations and the partially supranational entity European Union. 26 Negotiation in and about democracy promotion, of course, can and does include many more parties, including semi-independent para-state agencies and non-state actors on the "donor" side as well as political parties and civil-society organizations in the recipient country. 27 Still, in order to reduce complexity, we will focus here on negotiations between governmental organizations.…”

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Beyond contestation: conceptualizing negotiation in democracy promotion

2019

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This article presents an analytical framework that guides the contributions to this special issue and, in general terms, aims at enabling a systematic investigation of processes of negotiation in the international promotion of democracy. It first briefly introduces the rationale for studying democracy promotion negotiation, offers a definition, and locates the general approach within the academic literature, bringing together different strands of research, namely studies of negotiation in international relations as well as research on democratization and democracy promotion. The larger part of the article then discusses key concepts, analytical distinctions and theoretical propositions along the lines of the three research questions that are identified in the introduction to this special issue. More specifically, the article (1) offers a typology that facilitates a systematic empirical analysis of the issues that are discussed in democracy promotion negotiations; (2) takes initial steps towards a causal theory of democracy promotion negotiation by identifying and discussing a set of parameters that can be expected to shape such negotiations; and (3) introduces key distinctions and dimensions that help guide empirical research on the output and outcome of negotiations in democracy promotion.

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Democracy Promotion

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Towards a theory of dependent democracy

Towards a theory of dependent democracy

Post-Eurocentric grand narratives in critical international theory

Beyond contestation: conceptualizing negotiation in democracy promotion

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