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The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
Nicolas Guilhot
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Description for The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
Hardback. Looks at how the US government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies. This book charts the various symbolic, ideological, and political meanings that have developed around human rights and democracy movements. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies throughout the world. His work charts the various symbolic, ideological, and political meanings that have developed around human rights and democracy movements. Guilhot suggests that these shifting meanings reflect the transformation of a progressive, emancipatory movement into ... Read more
Has the international movement for democracy and human rights gone from being a weapon against power to part of the arsenal of power itself? Nicolas Guilhot explores this question in his penetrating look at how the U.S. government, the World Bank, political scientists, NGOs, think tanks, and various international organizations have appropriated the movement for democracy and human rights to export neoliberal policies throughout the world. His work charts the various symbolic, ideological, and political meanings that have developed around human rights and democracy movements. Guilhot suggests that these shifting meanings reflect the transformation of a progressive, emancipatory movement into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231131247
SKU
V9780231131247
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About Nicolas Guilhot
Nicolas Guilhot is research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre de Sociologie Europeenne. He is the author of Financiers, philanthropes: Vocations ethiques et reproduction du capital a Wall Street depuis 1970.
Reviews for The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order
This is a fine contribution to ongoing debates about human rights and democratization policy.
Chandra Lekha Sriram International Affairs A thorough grasp of the intellectual and institutional development of democratization theory and U.S. foreign policy... an important book.
Suzanne Ogden Political Science Quarterly Guilhot is to be congratulated for producing a coherent and purposeful account. Democratization This book ... Read more
Chandra Lekha Sriram International Affairs A thorough grasp of the intellectual and institutional development of democratization theory and U.S. foreign policy... an important book.
Suzanne Ogden Political Science Quarterly Guilhot is to be congratulated for producing a coherent and purposeful account. Democratization This book ... Read more