Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy (Open Access)

Most work on democracy promotion focuses on the conventional and state-based practices and projects of embassies, development agencies and NGOs. This innovative book recognises the influential distinction between Foreign Policy, as conventionally understood, and foreign policy as the complex of practices that constitutes objects as foreign in the first place. The author explores democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy, revealing how democracy is thought about and understood in Britain and globally. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of democracy promotion; critical border studies; poststructural IR; postcolonial politics; discourse analysis; and identity.