Date: 2005
Type: Book
The democracy makers : human rights & international order
New York : Columbia University Press, 2005
GUILHOT, Nicolas, The democracy makers : human rights & international order, New York : Columbia University Press, 2005
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22379
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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, NG0s, think tanks, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies throughout the world. His work charts the various symbolic, ideological, and political meanings that have developed around human rights and democracy movements. Guilhot suggests that these shifting meanings reflect the transformation of a progressive, emancipator), movement into an industry dominated by "experts" ensconced in positions of power. Guilhot's story begins in the 1950s when U.S. foreign policy experts promoted human rights and democracy as part of a "democratic international" to fight the spread of communism. Later, the unlikely convergence of anti-Stalinist leftists and the nascent neoconservative movement found a place in the Reagan administration. These "State Department Socialists," as they were known, created policies and organizations that provided financial and technical expertise to democratic movements and also supported authoritarian, anti-communist regimes, particularly in Latin America.
Table of Contents:
--Introduction: The Cosmopolitics of Democratization 1
--1. From Cold Warriors to Human Rights Activists 29
--2. The Field Of Democracy and Human Rights: Shaping a
--Professional Arena Around a New Liberal Consensus 69
--3. From the Development Engineers to the Democracy Doctors: The Rise And Fall of Modernization Theory 101
--4. Democratization Studies and the Construction of a New Orthodoxy 134
--5, International Relations Theory and the Emancipatory Narrative of Human Rights Networks 166
--6. Financing the Construction of "Market Democracies":
--The World Bank and the Global Supervision of "Good Governance" 188
--Conclusion 222
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22379
ISBN: 9780231131247
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5136
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2001
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