TY - CHAP
T1 - Democracy Promotion as a Practice of Liberal World Order
AU - Hobson, Christopher Edward
AU - Kurki, Milja
PY - 2014/1/30
Y1 - 2014/1/30
N2 - This chapter asks what the durability and centrality of democracy promotion suggest about the nature of liberal order. Is democracy promotion essentially based on an imperial or perhaps an integrative ordering practice, and how may we explain its longlasting qualities? The chapter is clear in asserting the importance of democracy promotion, arguing that the promotion of liberal democracy plays a central role in liberal order both as a means to the end of a liberal order, but also an end itself. It concedes that democracy promotion has an undeniable expansionist dimension, but it doubts if democracy promotion as a practice of liberal internationalism is imperialist in its logic or consequences, although it clearly involves hierarchical and power-related practices.
AB - This chapter asks what the durability and centrality of democracy promotion suggest about the nature of liberal order. Is democracy promotion essentially based on an imperial or perhaps an integrative ordering practice, and how may we explain its longlasting qualities? The chapter is clear in asserting the importance of democracy promotion, arguing that the promotion of liberal democracy plays a central role in liberal order both as a means to the end of a liberal order, but also an end itself. It concedes that democracy promotion has an undeniable expansionist dimension, but it doubts if democracy promotion as a practice of liberal internationalism is imperialist in its logic or consequences, although it clearly involves hierarchical and power-related practices.
KW - Democracy
KW - European union
KW - Hierarchy
KW - Imperial ordering practices
KW - Integrative ordering practices
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U2 - 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0011
DO - 10.5871/bacad/9780197265529.003.0011
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780191760334
SN - 9780197265529
BT - Liberal World Orders
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -