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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"democracy promotion"”.
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Democracy promotion in reverse? An evaluation of the UK and the US’s democracy promotion programmes (2005-2017).
… to knowledge by arguing that UK and US democracy promotion is in reverse. In order to fully understand democracy promotion in an era of democratic decline, this thesis draws upon two dominant theories: democratisation and foreign policy analysis. This thesis critically evaluates applied …
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Democracy promotion in a post-political world
This thesis is concerned with democracy promotion’s unexpected and often unheralded new role and trajectory. While having retreated from the limelight cast on democracy promotion in the early 1990s, the thesis argues that democracy promotion demonstrated considerable staying power in coming to work …
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U.S. democracy promotion and al Jazeera a view into Arab reactions and opposing movements
The promotion of democracy in the Arab world, an area to date resistant to effective political liberalization, hasbecome a central pillar in American Middle East foreign policy as well as an integral element in the Global Waron Terrorism (GWOT). How will this advocacy of democracy be received, …
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US FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS NIGERIA: INVESTIGATING AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN NIGERIA DURING CLINTON’S PRESIDENCY
… 1993 to 2001 paying particular attention to his democracy promotion agenda. Although en passant, many studies have argued that his administration failed to actively influence democratic transition in Nigeria. However, these studies did not sufficiently explain causes of this policy failure. Using …
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Democracy Promotion or Self Promotion? Canadian Bilateral Electoral Observation Missions to Ukraine, 2004-2014
The purpose of this thesis is to determine and assess the rationale, objectives, and nature behind Canada’s bilateral electoral observation missions (EOM) to the country of Ukraine. Using international EOM standards and norms to act as a baseline, the thesis identifies differences that exist …
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Democracy promotion by the European Union in Morocco within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy
… the European Union´s (EU) approach to external democracy promotion in Morocco. The study follows a comparative approach and compares the approach pursued by the EU within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), incepted in 2004, with the approach that it had developed up until …
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Regionális nemzetközi szervezetek demokrácia-támogatása a Nyugat-Balkánon = Democracy promotion in the Western Balkans through regional international organizations
… The central question of this dissertation is the democracy support activities of regional international organisations in the Western Balkans. Among regional organisations we analyse the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security …
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U.S. in the Unipolar Moment: Analysis of George W. Bush Middle East Foreign Policy
… policy priorities: stability, security, and democracy promotion and measured for each state for each year of the administration. Line graphs illustrate the changes from year to year and linear trend lines indicate the direction of change as positive, negative, or neutral. The results are used …
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From Our Democracy to Yours
The United States has viewed promoting democracy as a longstanding tenet of its foreign policy. This has manifested itself in many ways, including in its foreign aid projects. This thesis sought to better understand what the U.S. did in promoting democracy through its foreign aid. Specifically, it …
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A MILITANT DEMOCRACY AGENT: PROMOTING DEMOCRACY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
… Union (EU) can act as an effective militant democracy in its external relations amid renewed, heterogeneous autocratization across Europe and its neighbourhood. It challenges linear narratives of democratic advance or uniform recession, arguing instead that democratic erosion varies in …
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Hunger & Fury: The Political in Bosnia and Herzegovina
… practices. Thus despite decades of international democracy promotion efforts in BiH since the conclusion of the war in the 1990s, it is these broader patterns of state formation (and perpetuation) that have suffocated attempts at genuine popular participation in the countrys politics.
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American Foreign Policy and Islamic Aggression
… and glory. To prevent strategic overextension, democracy promotion must remain subservient to the overall counterterrorism strategy of the United States and the nations targeted for democratization should be selected in accordance with strategic interest and likelihood of success.
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Intervention Legitimisation and the Modern Democratisation Movement
… occupations were situated within a narrative of democracy promotion, liberalism and development. The act of invasion and the imposition of democratisation, raises the question can ‘democracy by force’ be reconciled in international law and international relations? There is little agreement of a …
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Participation Through Political Education. A mixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions.
… in elections, but instead to re-engage democracy with the demos. The findings suggest that a more conceptually inclusive approach allows civic engagement to evolve to the needs of the emerging democrats, providing opportunities for renewal and change in established democratic systems. …
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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
… public diplomacy via State Department "democracy promotion" programs, National Endowment for Democracy, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. These initiatives promoted regime change in Iran, ignoring a substantial majority of Iran’s population opposed to U.S.-sponsored interventions. …
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Vývoj evropské podpory demokracie na příkladu Tuniska ve 21. století s důrazem na vývoj po Arabském jaru
Tato práce zkoumá vývoj evropské podpory demokracie v druhé dekádě 21. století, resp. po Arabském jaru. Zkoumání skladby evropské podpory je založeno na podrobném rozboru tuniského příkladu. Po získání tohoto přehledu je zkoumán vývoj celkové podpory Evropské unie v Maroku, Egyptě a v regionálním …