Promoting democracy – promoting autocracy? International politics and national political regimes

Burnell, Peter; Schlumberger, Oliver

doi:10.1080/13569771003593805

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“…Although much of the literature (see Bader et al 2010, Burnell andSchlumberger 2010) presents regime promotion as a twentieth century onwards phenomenon in international affairs, arguably it has been an age-old tactic which can be traced all the way back to antiquity where Persia, various Greek cities states and Rome often undertook measures to promote specific regimes in their neighbouring lands (Hershey 1911). Indeed, Thucydides' (1991) famous account of the Peloponnesian War illustrated that Athens and Sparta, and later Persia, acted upon clear regime preferences in strategically important areas beyond their territories.…”

Section: Competing Regime Preferences In International Relationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The EU and Russia's conflicting regime preferences in Ukraine: assessing regime promotion strategies in the scope of the Ukraine crisis

Smith

2015

European Security

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This paper evaluates the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) and Russia's regime preferences in their foreign policies towards Ukraine in the scope of the ongoing Ukraine crisis. It is argued that the underpinning geopolitical environment Ukraine currently resides in, wedged between two much larger powers (the EU and Russia), renders it a vulnerable target state for regime promotion from both sides. Indeed, since the 2004 Orange revolution in Ukraine, both the EU and Russia have had discernible regime promotion strategies in their foreign policies. The EU's regime promotion has focussed on facilitating democracy in Ukraine, along with more material interests (trade and strategic aims) while Russia has reacted with increasingly zero-sum policies which pursue its preference for having a loyal and Russian-facing regime in Ukraine. Ultimately, the increasing competitiveness of the EU and Russia has been a key factor in the onset of the Ukraine crisis, which offers important insight into the relationship between large powers and the smaller third states which lie in their overlapping spheres of influence.

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Section: Competing Regime Preferences In International Relationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The EU and Russia's conflicting regime preferences in Ukraine: assessing regime promotion strategies in the scope of the Ukraine crisis

Smith

2015

European Security

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“…Security concerns meant that significant funding went to bolstering the military capacities of the states. Yet it was the same capacity that ended up reproducing repressive regimes, which democracy promotion aimed to alleviate by supporting political pluralism through civil society organizations (Burnell and Schlumberger, 2010;Durac, 2009). Furthermore, these activities linked with only a limited range of organizations, resembling Western counterparts (Hawthorne, 2004;Altan-Olcay and Icduygu, 2012).…”

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confidence: 98%

Politics of critique: Understanding gender in contemporary Middle East

Altan‐Olcay

2015

Geoforum

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a b s t r a c tThis paper explores the implications of spatial production of academic knowledge on the Middle East, through the critiques of Orientalist discourses on the ''Muslim woman.'' It begins with an examination of the success of postcolonial studies and scholarship on democratization in challenging racist perceptions and politics in the West. Then it reflects on the ways in which this knowledge production travels and is reconfigured in places where power inequalities are different. This requires a consideration of the regional consequences of either an over-emphasis on differences in agencies of ''Muslim women'' or a relative silence on issues of gender inequality. The paper's suggestion is to shift the focus from representation and discourse to the structural circumstances in which ordinary men and women's agencies play out; various political mechanisms which participate in the production of acceptable cultural practices; and patterns of resistance, which may defy arguments about culturally specific definitions of agency. This is a quest for making the ''exotic'' familiar, without exoticizing the familiar.

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“…This has been instrumental in efficiently embedding liberal policies in Tanzania, because they were able to embrace a new political and economic system easily. The weakness of good governance policies in the country is because the EU and other Western donors have mainly relied on leverage to influence these policies without domestic linkages (Diamond, 1995;Burnell, 2010).…”

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International Modes of Policy Influence: Does the EU Influence Good-Governance Policies in African, Caribbean and Pacific States?

Joachim¹

2012

JPL

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The European Union is able to transfer its values and influence good governance policies in ACP states, through leverage and transnational networks. This paper tries to establish the leverage-transnational networks nexus in influencing policy and to account for the variance of European Union influence. In a comparative design, it tries to extricate these influences empirically by using a multi-variate regression analysis for the years 1975-2009, to establish whether European Union influences good governance policies in the African Great lakes states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Though the analysis controls for other influences, still evidence of European Union influence in the three countries is significant. It further indicates that the degree of influence is predicated on the complementary role of the modes of influence, which accounts for the variance.

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Promoting democracy – promoting autocracy? International politics and national political regimes

Cited by 96 publications

References 33 publications

The EU and Russia's conflicting regime preferences in Ukraine: assessing regime promotion strategies in the scope of the Ukraine crisis

The EU and Russia's conflicting regime preferences in Ukraine: assessing regime promotion strategies in the scope of the Ukraine crisis

Politics of critique: Understanding gender in contemporary Middle East

International Modes of Policy Influence: Does the EU Influence Good-Governance Policies in African, Caribbean and Pacific States?

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