Arbeitspapier | Working paper
Between norms and interests: US and German democracy promotion in comparison
Academic interest in democracy promotion notwithstanding, there is still little research that systematically compares different democracy promoters with a view to identifying the factors that explain variance in democracy promotion policies. The paper presents results of a research project that set out to contribute to filling this gap by analyzing the democracy promotion policies of two "donors" (USA, Germany) towards six "recipient" countries (Pakistan and Turkey, Bolivia and Ecuador, Russia and Belarus). It studies how "donor" states react to specific challenges that arise from "recipient" countries and that lead to conflicting objectives on the part of the democracy promoters. The paper asks how democracy promoters, across the twelve cases, deal with conflicting objectives and assesses the overall national patterns that characterize U.S. and German democracy promotion. With a view to both tasks, the paper offers causal explanations that are based on a theoretical framework that combines power-, interest- and norm-based determinants. While the mainstream view argues that "hard" interests regularly prevail over "soft" norms in cases of conflict, the analysis shows that the causal effect of the individual determinants on democracy promotion is not uniform, but depends on both the configuration of determinants and on the specific conditions in the "recipient" country.
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Seite(n): 21
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Englisch
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion
- Erschienen in
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PRIF Working Papers (15)
- Thema
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Internationale Beziehungen
Politikwissenschaft
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
USA
Demokratisierung
internationaler Vergleich
Pakistan
Türkei
Bolivien
Ecuador
Russland
Weißrussland
Konfliktpotential
Zielkonflikt
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Wolff, Jonas
Spanger, Hans-Joachim
Karakas, Cemal
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
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Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main
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2012
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-455198
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Wolff, Jonas
- Spanger, Hans-Joachim
- Karakas, Cemal
- Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Entstanden
- 2012
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