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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"promotion of democracy"”.
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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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The Final Frontier of Freedom: a Prospectus for Future Democratization of the Middle East
It has become fashionable amongst some critics of the George W. Bush administration to say that the centerpiece of his foreign policy, the promotion of democracy in the Middle East, is endemically flawed because the religious, political, or cultural conditions in the region would constrain, or …
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U.S Presidents in Africa After the Cold War: In Search of a Reason
<p>Africa has often ranked low in priority when it comes to U.S. foreign relations. Often, the presence of a threat to U.S. interests in Africa sparks a redirection of U.S. leaders to Africa. The Cold War was one of such periods. This work looks at U.S. leaders after the Cold War, focusing on …
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NGO Peacebuilding in Northern Uganda: Interrogating Liberal Peace from the Ground
The question of what agenda drives NGO peacebuilding in post-conflict setting has been raised in a number of literatures which make generalized conclusions that NGOs tend to respond to the liberal peace agenda, and in the process co-opt local peacebuilding initiatives. Liberal peace agenda refers …
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Sierra Leone`s post-conflict reconstruction: a study of the challenges for building long term peace
The main purpose of this research was to understand the civil war in Sierra Leone and its antecedents, and to analyse the package of reconstruction reforms which came along in the post-war era and their relevance for and impact on the local challenges for longer term peace. Continued corruption …
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Cultural models of respectful subjectivity among primary school children in post-conflict Ayacucho, Peru: an embodied learning analysis
In this dissertation, I approach the question of how educational policy and practice can shape children into peaceful, democratic citizens in a context of recent internal armed conflict. Broadly, I address the issue of how to make internationally derived policy discourses meaningful for children. …
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The United States of America's foreign policy towards Africa: the case studies of Kenya and Nigeria, 1990-2008
… position in the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America (US). Since Africa has been plagued by poverty, HIV/AIDS, authoritarianism, civil wars and other related ills, it seems to constitute a national security threat to the US. This is evidently seen by the interest that …
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Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in sub-Saharan Africa
The promotion of democracy has become a key objective of the European Union (EU) in sub-Saharan Africa. One of the ways in which this objective is pursued is by reacting to violations of democratic principles using negative measures: naming and shaming strategies or economic/diplomatic sanctions. …
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Die Organisation amerikanischer Staaten (OAS) : von der Legitimationskrise zur Wiederbelebung als Regime zur Staatsstreichprävention
Die Dissertation untersucht ein Regime zur Staatsstreichprävention unter dem Dach der Organisation Amerikanischer Staaten (OAS). Diese lange totgesagte Regionalorganisation, die aus historischen Gründen einem strikten Prinzip der Nichtintervention anhing, wurde durch die Wechselwirkung von …