The Democracy Makers : Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order /

Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guilhot, Nicolas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2005]
Temas:
Anti-globalization movement.
Democracy.
Globalization.
Human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Cosmopolitics of Democratization
  • 1. From Cold Warriors to Human Rights Activists
  • 2. The Field Of Democracy and Human Rights: Shaping a Professional Arena Around a New Liberal Consensus
  • 3. From the Development Engineers to the Democracy Doctors: The Rise And Fall of Modernization Theory
  • 4. Democratization Studies and the Construction of a New Orthodoxy
  • 5. International Relations Theory and the Emancipatory Narrative of Human Rights Networks
  • 6. Financing the Construction of "Market Democracies": The World Bank and the Global Supervision of "Good Governance"
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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