The International Politics of Democratization : Comparative perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415453035 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str.

Opis

Examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors have an influence on what were once thought of as exclusively domestic processes of political change.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Connecting Democracy Promotion and Protection with the Theory and Evaluating its Impact on the Practice of Democratization  2. The International Politics of Democratization from Portugal: A Reassessment (1974) to Iraq (2003)  3. International Factors in Democratization, their Scope and Limitations: European Comparative Perspectives on the Post-Cold War World  4. The International Dimension of Democratization: The Spanish Transition  5. Continuity and Change: The Foreign Policy of Portuguese Democracy  6. Re-Defining Eastern Europe: Democratization in Central and South-Eastern Europe  7. The International Dimensions of Democratization: The Case of Argentina  8. International Dimensions of Democratization: Brazil  9. External Dimensions of Democratization: The Case of the Middle East  10. Democracy and the Muslim World.  Conclusions

O autorze

Nuno Severiano Teixeira is currently Minister of National Defence of the Portuguese Government, he is also Professor of International Relations at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.