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dc.contributor.authorGUILHOT, Nicolasen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T08:58:49Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T08:58:49Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2001en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5136
dc.descriptionDefence date: 9 November 2001
dc.descriptionExamining board: Prof. Yves Dezalay, CNRS - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris ; Prof. Saskia Sassen, University of Chicago ; Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter, EUI (supervisor) ; Prof. Peter Wagner, EUI
dc.descriptionPDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
dc.description.abstractHas 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.
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/22379
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dc.subject.lcshHuman rights
dc.subject.lcshDemocracy
dc.subject.lcshGlobalization
dc.subject.lcshAnti-globalization movement
dc.titleThe democracy makers : foreign policy activists, political scientists and the construction of an international market for political virtueen
dc.typeThesisen
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