In this Book
- Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Demand for practical knowledge and lessons about how the United States and other countries can more effectively promote democracy around the world has never been higher. This timely book by Thomas Carothers, one of the foremost authorities worldwide on democracy building, helps meet that need. Critical Mission draws together a wide-ranging set of Carothers's many seminal, widely cited essays, organized around four vital themes: the role of democracy promotion in U.S. foreign policy the core elements of democracy aid the state of democracy in the world the new U.S. push to promote democracy in the Middle East From puncturing myths about promoting civil society to sizing up the prospects for democracy in the Arab world, Carothers is consistently penetrating, incisive, and challenging to policymakers, democracy activists, and scholars alike.The book also includes the only up-to-date, comprehensive bibliography on democracy promotion.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Section 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Section 2. The Place of Democracy Promotion in U.S. Foreign Policy
- Section 3. Core Elements of Democracy Aid
- Chapter 10. The Rule of Law Revival
- pp. 121-130
- Section 4. The State of Democracy
- Chapter 13. Democracy without Illusions
- pp. 155-166
- Chapter 16. Zakaria's Complaint (2003)
- pp. 219-226
- Section 5. Into the Middle East
- Section 6. Afterword
- pp. 259-264
- Bibliography on Democracy Promotion
- pp. 265-282