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Burron, Neil Andrew.

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Democracy Promotion and the Quest for Regional Order A critical view of U.S. and Canadian democracy assistance in the Americas.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democracy Promotion and the Quest for Regional Order A critical view of U.S. and Canadian democracy assistance in the Americas./
Author:	Burron, Neil Andrew.
Description:	398 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0348.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-01A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR67871
ISBN:	9780494678718

Democracy Promotion and the Quest for Regional Order A critical view of U.S. and Canadian democracy assistance in the Americas.
Burron, Neil Andrew.

Democracy Promotion and the Quest for Regional Order A critical view of U.S. and Canadian democracy assistance in the Americas. - 398 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: A, page: 0348.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University (Canada), 2010.

As Canada greatly expands and reorganizes its democracy assistance programs, there is a need to situate its democracy promotion efforts in relation to those of its more powerful neighbour. Yet most analyses of democracy promotion fail to look at the more controversial aspects of this field of practice, particularly its relation to advancing larger foreign policy objectives. The Americas offers an important area of investigation for a critical comparative analysis of democracy promotion given the U.S. historic role and Canada's growing interest in the region, as well as the competing visions of democracy that are being contested throughout the hemisphere. Through an empirical examination of democracy assistance programs in Haiti, Peru, and Bolivia, this project explores the extent to which Canada and the United States have used their democracy programs to accomplish geopolitical and economic objectives that in fact contradict the democratic aspirations of popular groups and social classes in these three countries.

ISBN: 9780494678718Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669648
Political Science, International Relations.

Democracy Promotion and the Quest for Regional Order A critical view of U.S. and Canadian democracy assistance in the Americas.
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520 $a The dissertation contributes to the neo-Gramscian critique which highlights the ways in which democracy promotion favours a model of low-intensity democracy, or polyarchy. It adds to this tradition by addressing its main theoretical gaps, that is, the failure to consider how different core states advance different forms of democracy promotion, how they affect social relations in terms of both class and identity, and how they operate in more stable political environments. It also acknowledges the positive impact that democracy promotion may sometimes have, particularly in terms of institution building. Through an examination of the case studies, a critical typology of democracy promotion strategies and tactics is developed that distinguishes between forms that mobilize and reinforce the hegemony of specific elite sectors and those that seek to consolidate polyarchy at a more systemic level. In the case of Canada, a more progressive tradition of democracy promotion that empowers grassroots and popular organizations must also be considered. The typology is situated within a cultural political economy that embeds Foucauldian notions of govemmentality and discourse within a neo-Gramscian approach to world order and hegemony.
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