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Democracy promotion and civilian power: the example of Germany's 'value-oriented' foreign policy
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Abstract While Germany is generally considered one of the most important democracy promoters, there is still limited work on the German approach to promoting democracy. There is a general understanding that Germany - as a civilian power - should be guided by democratic values in its external affairs, but it ... mehr
While Germany is generally considered one of the most important democracy promoters, there is still limited work on the German approach to promoting democracy. There is a general understanding that Germany - as a civilian power - should be guided by democratic values in its external affairs, but it is neither theoretically nor empirically very clear what this means for the actual practice of democracy promotion. The present paper contributes to filling this gap by (1) locating democracy promotion as a foreign policy aim and instrument in the role conception of civilian power, (2) summarising the fragmented state of the art on German democracy promotion, (3) presenting results of a qualitative content analysis in order to reconstruct the main features of the official outline of German democracy promotion, and (4) confronting these programmatic findings with a brief comparative view on the practice of German democracy promotion towards Bolivia, Turkey and Russia.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Außenpolitik; Zivilgesellschaft; internationale Beziehungen; Perspektive; Demokratisierung; Wertsystem
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Bestimmungsfaktoren der Außenpolitik; Außenpolitische Ziele; Demokratieförderung; Soft Power; Bilaterale internationale Beziehungen; Beispielhafte Fälle; Entwicklungsperspektive und -tendenz
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2013
Seitenangabe
S. 477-493
Zeitschriftentitel
German Politics, 22 (2013) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2013.853043
ISSN
1743-8993
Status
Preprint
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung