Democracy Promotion

Democracy Promotion vs. Dignity Promotion
I have to confess my bias that I have always been skeptical of the merits of democracy promotion, especially via military means. So when I red this essay about Obama’s proposed foreign policy focus on dignity promotion over democracy ...

2008: The Obama Doctrine
For anyone even vaguely interested in how a prospective Obama administration would approach democracy promotion (and foreign policy more broadly), Spencer Ackerman has a must-read article in the National Interest detailing “The Obama ...

Dignity
They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering democracy promotion agenda in favor of dignity promotion, to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and ...

OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY Here is the best article about Obama's ...
Obama's foreign policy brain trust . . . envision[s] a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering democracy promotion agenda in favor of dignity promotion, to fix the conditions of ...

Nato: sealing the colour revolutions
President Bush has championed democracy promotion. To his credit he supported the colour revolutions in Eastern Europe: Georgia and Ukraine. Yet, as Jackson Diel points out, Russia is gaining strength while the West is losing prestige. ...

Dignity Promotion
This idea, that the world community doesn’t just need democracy promotion but dignity promotion as well, really gets to the crux of Obama’s foreign policy, and it is certainly something I can agree with. I guess what I am saying is, ...

Barack Obama's Faulty Foreign Policy Doctrine
Ackerman foolishly assigns this extra meaning as he describes a foreign policy that moves from democracy promotion to so called dignity promotion... What's typically neglected in these arguments is the simple insight that democracy does ...

Stop The Promotions
It represents not so much a recognition that democracy promotion is inherently flawed, destabilising and counterproductive as it does a belief that Mr. Bush and company have been too limited in their willingness to intervene in other ...

Promoting “Dignity”
American Democracy promotion is so last decade. But fear not, there’sa new American promotion-du-jour for the Middle East in store, Obama style.Naive or insightful? You decide: ..Democracy does not fill stomachs, alleviate malaria, ...

On Doctrines
A shift away from democracy promotion to “dignity” promotion doesn’t instill me with confidence, either (I think we should loosely and conditionally be in the business of both, but I digress). The Leftists will swoon over how “clever” ...