Free Download Sonja Grimm, Tina Freyburg, Julia Leininger, "Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion: Do All Good Things Go Together?"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1138383279 | EPUB | pages: 222 | 0.8 mb
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.
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