1st Edition

Conflicting Objectives in Democracy Promotion Do All Good Things Go Together?

Edited By Julia Leininger, Sonja Grimm, Tina Freyburg Copyright 2014
232 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword  1. Not all good things go together: conflicting objectives in democracy promotion  2. Democracy promotion, empowerment, and self-determination: conflicting objectives in US and German policies towards Bolivia  3. Financing poverty alleviation vs. promoting democracy? Multi-Donor Budget Support in Zambia  4. Coerced transitions in Timor-Leste and Kosovo: managing competing objectives of institution-building and local empowerment  5. Power-sharing and democracy promotion in post-civil war peace-building  6. Two at one blow? The EU and its quest for security and democracy by political conditionality in the Western Balkans  7. Inconsistent interventionism in Palestine: objectives, narratives, and domestic policy-making  8. Peace-building and democracy promotion in Afghanistan: the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme and reconciliation with the Taliban  9. The two sides of functional cooperation with authoritarian regimes: a multi-level perspective on the conflict of objectives between political  stability and democratic change

Biography

Julia Leininger is Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn. She has previously published a handbook on international organizations (‘Handbuch international Organisationen’ with Dr Katja Freistein) and developed an approach to study international democracy promotion.

Sonja Grimm is Senior Researcher and Lecturer on International and Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz. She specializes in studies of transition to democracy in postconflict societies and has previously edited (with Prof. Dr Wolfgang Merkel) War and Democratization: Legality, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness, a Democratization special issue (2008, Vol. 15, No. 3).

Tina Freyburg is post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Her current research projects explore new avenues in the study of the international dimension of democratization, in particular the democratizing potential of transgovernmental networks. For more information refer to [http://www.tina-freyburg.eu].