Sentences with phrase «democracy promotion»

Fortunately, many of the key actors in the realm of democracy promotion listened to their critics.

There was also a tendency for Western democracy promotion to decline.

• Be comprehensive; make parliamentary strengthening part of larger democracy promotion programmes.

This will allow researchers to examine how democracy promotion looks on the ground, and will allow the project to focus on those the programmes are intended to benefit.

In the late 2000s a two - part consensus emerged between academics, policy makers and practitioners in the realm of democracy promotion.

Andrea Teti critiqued European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.

Andrea Teti critiques European discourses on democracy promotion in Egypt and their alienation of Egyptian pro-democracy opposition groups.

- Part of US economic aid is spent on democracy promotion programs in Egypt, a policy that has generated controversy in recent years.

Ibrahim's Ibn Khaldoun Center in Cairo receives US funding, one of the largest recipients of democracy promotion money in fact.

With these articles, the project takes its first steps towards establishing new avenues of communication between academics working on democratization and the policy - makers who put democracy promotion into practice.

The new Political Economy of Democracy Promotion Project — a collaboration between the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), the main democracy promotion organization of the UK — aims to change this.

Democracy promotion advocates have long bemoaned the singular fixation on elections as a metric for progress, before Western leaders and policymakers inevitably move onto the next crisis.

The reformed approach is best evidenced by India's reactive, not pro-active, democracy promotion strategy.

While the West was often characterised as a democracy promoter, this was not always entirely the case, for example in the EU's more nuanced approach to Azerbaijan, which tacitly moderates democracy promotion in view of the EU's interest in Azerbaijan's energy resources.

[3] However, the U.S. should use force only to preserve its vital interests, such as energy supply and geostrategic advantage, but should disregard non-vital issues, such as democracy promotion, regime change or nation building.

Wilsonians, according to Mead, place democracy promotion and human rights as core elements in US grand strategy.

The project is the first to be able to examine the evidence base generated by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and will take an innovative approach, embedding fieldwork within democracy promotion programmes in several countries, including Pakistan and Ukraine.

By fostering dialogue and opening new channels of communication between democracy promoter and researchers, the project seeks to improve the work of democracy promotion across the globe.

«On principle, the Egyptian government rejects US assistance for democracy promotion activities, though it has grudgingly accepted a certain degree of programming,» Jeremy Sharp of the Congressional Research Service said in a background report updated on January 28.

The Bush era gave democracy promotion a bad name: soon we can work together again, and let's add human rights to the mix.

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

And Russia is not precisely an «autocracy - promoter» in the region (the mirror image of Western democracy promotion).

The Political Economy of Democracy Promotion Project aims to change this, bringing together academics, policy makers and practitioners working on democracy promotion.

Political disagreements have been exemplified by the controversies regarding the role of democracy promotion in budget support during the «Arab Spring», or the diverging views on how to engage with emerging international development actors such as China.

Titled «the political economy of democracy promotion», this collaboration brings together academics, policy makers, and practitioners working on democracy promotion in a way that previous projects have not.

Yet our understanding of what works in democracy promotion, and how we can do it better, has remained relatively limited.

For him, the United Nations, nation - building, democracy promotion and human rights are lesser priorities.

Subsequent policy papers will examine political party support and cross-cutting themes, such as the role of gender in democracy promotion.

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

By creating reliable trade partners for American businesses through development initiatives in governance, water, health, education, agriculture and democracy promotion, the US can avoid being «complacent» and instead become more «competitive.»

In a previous article, I talked about a new research project that aims to fill some of the gaps in our knowledge about democracy promotion.

Democracy promotion has been controversial, and some have questioned whether it works at all.

However, we still have a relatively limited understanding of what does and doesn't work in democracy promotion.

It is essential that we develop our knowledge of where (and when) democracy promotion works best, and how it can be made more effective.

Their starting point is the belief in American exceptionalism, the umbrella concept from which all other ideas flow — ranging from the early 19th century Monroe Doctrine to the Bush Doctrine and democracy promotion.

Trump's GOP has become an unworkable vehicle for the propagation of traditional conservative policy, such as free trade and democracy promotion.

Killmonger's plan for «black liberation,» arming insurgencies all over the world, is an American policy that has backfired and led to unforeseen disasters perhaps every single time it has been deployed; it is somewhat bizarre to see people endorse a comic - book version of George W. Bush's foreign policy and sign up for the Project for the New Wakandan Century as long as the words «black liberation» are used instead of «democracy promotion.»

He says that in his entire career as a historian / journalist he's yet to read one in which the supposed aims are democracy promotion and to support self - interests on the country involved.