Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction - Summary by Dr Matthew Alan Hill
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- Speaker(s):
- Dr Matthew Alan Hill
- Event date:
- Friday 13 January 2012
School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Description
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Democracy promotion and conflict-based reconstruction: The United States and democratic consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq by Dr Matthew Alan Hill (Institute for the Study of the Americas) was published by Routledge on 1 July 2011.
In this book, Dr Hill investigates US foreign policy and tests the hypothesis that transition-inspired democracy promotion will successfully establish liberal democracy around the world, and thus fulfil the aims of the American mission and its application of the democratic peace. It features two detailed case studies exploring political liberalization in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and suggests that the conclusions are applicable to other cases by highlighting the US mission in Iraq.
Dr Hill critically examines US foreign policy in a theoretical and historical context, focusing on the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) democracy assistance. It demonstrates that if liberal democracy is the end-goal of USAID's strategy then the theoretical and practical limitations of transition-inspired assistance will impede the attainment of this goal.
In examining US democracy promotion in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq during the Clinton and Bush administrations, the book concludes by considering its future during the Obama administration.
Dr Matthew Alan Hill is a postdoctoral research fellow in US politics and history at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Democracy promotion and conflict-based reconstruction is published by Routledge as part of its Democratization Studies series.
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