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A worthy successor to Tom Farer's seminal Beyond Sovereignty.
Excellent new volume.
This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the experience with democracy promotion in the Americas. It offers an up-to-date, engaging discussion, which balances theory and empirical analysis. An important contribution and a valuable analysis of a key normative question—how do we assist democracy?—that extracts lessons of great policy relevance.
This book is a comprehensive and solid analysis of the ups and downs of democracy promotion in the Americas. It shows how much the democracy cause has gained ground in the region since the historic 1991 OAS Santiago Commitment to Democracy, but it also demonstrates the failures and shortcomings of this process, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in the defense and promotion of representative democracy in the Americas. It is a fine guidebook for scholars and practitioners.
This timely volume assembles a diverse international team to cast light on the transnationalization of regime change in the Americas. Comparing OAS, state-based, and NGO promotion efforts across the region, this study expands our understanding of democracy beyond an electoral process—to include important dimensions of citizenship and accountability. Analytically, the interplay between structural and normative interpretations of democratization advances the constructivist approach to world politics.
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Pages
360
ISBN
9780801886768
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The International and Transnational Dimensions of Democracy in the Americas
Part I: The Role of the OAS and Regional Powers
Chapter 2. The OAS
Foreword
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chapter 1. The International and Transnational Dimensions of Democracy in the Americas
Part I: The Role of the OAS and Regional Powers
Chapter 2. The OAS and Legalizing Norms of Democracy
Chapter 3. The OAS's Mixed Record
Chapter 4. The United States: Rhetoric and Reality
Chapter 5. Canada: Democracy's New Champion?
Chapter 6. Brazil: How Realists Defend Democracy
Part II: Election Monitoring
Chapter 7. Election Monitoring and the Western Hemisphere Idea
Chapter 8. External Validation and Democratic Accountability
Part III: Crisis Cases
Chapter 9. Haiti 2004: CARICOM's Democracy Promotion Eorts
Chapter 10. Venezuela 2002–2004: The Ch.vez Challenge
Chapter 11. Ecuador 2004–2005: Democratic Crisis Redux
Part IV: Critical Reflections
Chapter 12. The International Political Economy of Democracy Promotion: Lessons from Haiti and Guatemala
Chapter 13. Transnational Response to Democratic Crisis in the Americas, 1990–2005
Appendix A. OAS Resolution 1080
Appendix B. The Inter-American Democratic Charter
References
List of Contributors
Index
Resources
