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The tragedy of liberal diplomacy: democratization, intervention, statebuilding (part II)
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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:04 authored by Beate JahnThe first part of this paper (in the previous issue) showed that the democracy promotion policies often perceived as characteristic of the New World Order are not so new. Rather, they were an integral part of the modernization theories and policies of the Cold War era. This second part of the paper shows that the democracy transition paradigm is based on precisely the same liberal assumptions as its predecessor and that, like the former, its theories and policies have widely been identified as failing. This failure leads to interventionist and statebuilding policies which in turn trigger resistances in target countries; a pattern already familiar from the Cold War period. We are confronted, thus, neither with a new world order nor with the end of history but rather with its repetition. And this repetitive cycle of counterproductive theories and policies, the paper concludes, will continue for as long as the liberal ideology underpinning it remains essentially unchallenged.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Journal of Intervention and StatebuildingISSN
1750-2977Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
Issue
2Volume
1Page range
211-229Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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- Yes