Exporting Democracy: Rhetoric vs. Reality - Hardcover

Schraeder, Peter J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588260569 ISBN 13: 9781588260567

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

In recent years, debates within academic and policymaking circles have gradually shifted - from a Cold War focus on whether democracy constitutes the best form of governance, to the question of whether (and to what degree) international actors should be actively involved in democracy promotion. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of international efforts to promote democracy during the post-World War II period, with an emphasis on developments since 1989. The authors assess the efforts of major industrialized democracies, multilateral actors, and NGOs. They find that the success of these endeavors is constrained by several realities, ranging from the often significant gap between the rhetoric and the reality of actual policies, to the dilemma that occurs when the goal of democracy clashes with other foreign policy interests. The first comprehensive analysis of international efforts to promote democracy during the post-World War II period, with an emphasis on developments since 1989.

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About the Author

Peter J. Schraeder is associate professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago. He is author of United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change and African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation. He is also the editor of Intervention in the 1990s: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Third World.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588260569
• ISBN 13: 9781588260567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270