Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The book provides a detailed answer to these questions, examining the logic and the m...
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| description | This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The book provides a detailed answer to these questions, examining the logic and the modes of thinking that made such a response possible through analysis of the stories we tell about ourselves: stories about time, history, development, civilisation and the ineluctable spread of democracy. Elliott argues that these narratives have become a key tool in enabling practices that differentiate selves from others, friends from enemies, the domestic from the foreign, civilisation from the barbarian. They operate with a particular conception of time and constitute a British, democratic, national identity by positing an "other" that is barbaric, alien, despotic, violent and backward. Such understandings are useful in wake of disaster, because they leave us with something to do: danger can be managed by bringing certain people and places up-to-date. However, this book shows that there are other stories to be told, and that it is possible to read stories about history against the grain and author alternative, less oppressive, versions. Providing a genealogy drawing on material from colonial and postcolonial Britain and Pakistan, including legislation, political discourse, popular culture and government projects, this book will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on democracy promotion; genealogy; critical border studies; poststructural IR; postcolonial politics; discourse analysis; identity/subjectivity; and "the war on terror". |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1607112025-07-29T14:40:37Z Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy Elliott, Cathy Young Men UK’s Conservative Government UK Foreign Policy Democracy Promotion UK Cabinet Office UK People Waving Union Flags Contemporary UK Commons Parliamentary Papers Material Consideration British Muslims Temporal Othering Electoral Commissions Liberal Democratic Governmentality Salman Rushdie Burkean Polity Salman Rushdie Affair Northern Mill Towns Democracy Promotion Practices Make Poverty History Campaign Ruptural Break thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFN Nationalism thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The book provides a detailed answer to these questions, examining the logic and the modes of thinking that made such a response possible through analysis of the stories we tell about ourselves: stories about time, history, development, civilisation and the ineluctable spread of democracy. Elliott argues that these narratives have become a key tool in enabling practices that differentiate selves from others, friends from enemies, the domestic from the foreign, civilisation from the barbarian. They operate with a particular conception of time and constitute a British, democratic, national identity by positing an "other" that is barbaric, alien, despotic, violent and backward. Such understandings are useful in wake of disaster, because they leave us with something to do: danger can be managed by bringing certain people and places up-to-date. However, this book shows that there are other stories to be told, and that it is possible to read stories about history against the grain and author alternative, less oppressive, versions. Providing a genealogy drawing on material from colonial and postcolonial Britain and Pakistan, including legislation, political discourse, popular culture and government projects, this book will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on democracy promotion; genealogy; critical border studies; poststructural IR; postcolonial politics; discourse analysis; identity/subjectivity; and "the war on terror". 2025-05-29T05:13:48Z 2025-05-29T05:13:48Z 2025-05-28T08:25:43Z 2017 book ONIX_20250528T101339_9781317209805_89 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102958 9781317209805 9781032097411 9781317209799 9781315618050 9781138669727 9781317209782 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160711 eng Interventions open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102958/1/9781317209805.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102958/1/9781317209805.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315618050 10.4324/9781315618050 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781317209805 9781032097411 9781317209799 9781315618050 9781138669727 9781317209782 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Routledge 214 Oxford [...] open access |
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