The democracy makers : human rights and international order /

"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...

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Autore principale: Guilhot, Nicolas, 1970-
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: New York : Columbia University Press ©2005.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/guil13124
Sommario:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction : the cosmopolities of democratization
  • 1. From cold warriors to human rights activists
  • 2. field of democracy and human rights : shaping a professional arena around a new liberal consensus
  • 3. From the development engineers to the democracy doctors : the rise and fall of modernization theory
  • 4. Democratization studies and the construction of a new orthodoxy
  • 5. International relations theory and the emancipatory narrative of human rights networks.