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Is European enlargement policy a form of non-democracy promotion?
Can the theory of autocracy promotion learn something from the most recent erosion in democracy seen across the Western Balkans (WB)? The case of the...
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Inclusive Approaches to Multilateral Democracy Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada
Debates about states’ inclusion and exclusion dominated media headlines around the 2021 Summit for Democracy and the 2022 Summit of the Americas. By...
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Democracy Builders
America’s democracy builders fall into two interconnected methods of practice: persuasion by example (attraction) and by engagement (intervention)....
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The LIO’s growing democracy gap: an endogenous source of polity contestation
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is under pressure from various angles. To account for this phenomenon, a recent trend is to focus on endogenous...
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The Belt and Road Initiative and Autocracy Promotion as Elements of China’s Grand Strategy
This chapter analyses the role of autocracy promotion in China’s grand strategy and the role of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in this context....
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Toward Canadian Democracy Protection 2.0 in the Americas?
This chapter analyzes recent challenges, trends, and developments in Canadian efforts to safeguard democracy in the Americas. While still largely...
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Democracy and Cyber Deterrence
The chapter takes four steps to explore the relationship between democracy and cyber deterrence. First, I investigate the intellectual foundation of...
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Democracy Promotion by the V4 States: Origins and Motives
Democracy promotion is a value-based foreign policy that nonetheless has geostrategic ramifications. This chapter explores the theoretical...
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Policy and Practice in Canada’s International Democracy Support
This chapter examines Canadian policies and practice to support democracy abroad. It sets out key policy milestones and looks at Canada’s current...
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The International Visegrad Fund as a Democracy Promotion Instrument
The International Visegrad Fund is a unique instrument designed to strengthen cooperation among the scholars and civil society organizations of the...
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Promotion of Policy Transfer
This chapter firstly examines the national and international context for policy transfer, arguing that both internal and external contextual features...
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Canada’s Support for Democracy: Some Wins and Losses but Much Potential
This chapter will provide a former diplomatic practitioner’s perspective on the challenges to democracy and the international rules-based order, the...
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How individuals shape informal institutions: Analyzing contending norm promotion in the Global South
Why do some actors possess more leverage to diffuse norms than others? Although it is often assumed that norm diffusion simply ‘happens’ through the...
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Conclusions: Funding Democracy?
Has the finance regime for European political parties and foundations contributed to EU democracy? This concluding chapter assesses how and to what...
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From cooperation to confrontation: US-Russia relations since 9/11
Relations between the US and Russia during the George W. Bush era were marked by a dramatic shift from cooperation to confrontation. Russia’s...
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The COVID-19 Crisis: An Accelerator of Digital Democracy?
The Covid-19 pandemic has differentiated impacts, depending on the country and especially on the policies implemented, on the functioning of...
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EU Democratic Governance Promotion Towards Central Asia and Illiberal Regional Powers
The EU’s engagement with Central Asia has evolved significantly since the 1990s from being the region’s largest donor, even if an invisible one, to a...
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Democracy, Peace and Stability in South Africa: The Struggle Continues
After decades of protracted conflicts, South Africa peacefully transitioned into democracy in 1994. South Africa’s then-new regime resonated with the...
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Human Rights Diplomacy of Muslim States at Multilateral Forums
States discussed in this chapter are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The first part of the chapter briefly introduces the...
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Cooperation Between Russia and China in Multilateral Organizations: A Tactical or a Strategic Alliance?
Both China and Russia are heavyweights in multilateral Geneva. While their priorities and strategies are not identical, their interests are often...