MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009294351
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008 090506s2008 nyu b 000 0 eng c
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050 00 $aJC423$b.E62 2008
082 00 $a327.1/1$222
245 00 $aEnhancing democracy assistance /$cproject directors: Lincoln A. Mitchell and David L. Phillips.
260 $aNew York :$bNational Committee on American Foreign Policy :$bAronold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University in the City of New York ;$aWashington, D.C. :$bAtlantic Council of the United States,$c[2008]
300 $a27 p. ;$c28 cm.
500 $aCover title.
500 $a"January 2008."
500 $a"A project of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University in the City of New York and the Atlantic Council of the United States."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 26).
520 $aThis report recognizes that democracy assistance is essential to the promotion of US foreign policy and global interests, and offers political and technical recommendations in order to enhance democracy assistance. Today's global setting poses several distinct challenges to democracy assistance. Countries such as China offer an alternative model of governance that promotes economic development without political reform, while wielding substantial economic leverage. Populist authoritarian regimes and illiberal democracies, such as those of Venezuela and Iran, claim popular legitimacy while cracking down on internal dissent. Challenges to democratization have also been exacerbated by the Iraq War and the Global War on Terror (GWOT), which have fueled anti-Americanism around the globe, undermined US credibility, overstretched US resources, and compromised domestic support for democracy assistance. ... In order to address negative perceptions of democracy assistance around the world and to rebuild bipartisan support at home, it is necessary to reframe the means and ends of assistance efforts. The democracy assistance community can maximize the impact of its activities by planning for the long term, insuring better training and preparation for field staff, and emphasizing more rigorous project evaluation. This report offers recommendations to hone proven approaches to democracy assistance, specifically, programs that strengthen civil society, prepare elections, assist political party development, and support democratic governance. It also identifies different regime types that are the focus of democracy assistance -- authoritarian states, illiberal democracies, free-wheeling kleptocracies, and post-conflict states. While recognizing that the distinctions among them are not iron-clad, the report offers context-specific recommendations for each.
530 $aAlso available from the NFACP and ACUS websites.
650 0 $aDemocratization.
650 0 $aDemocracy.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y21st century.
700 1 $aMitchell, Lincoln Abraham.
700 1 $aPhillips, David L.$q(David Lawrence),$d1959-
710 2 $aNational Committee on American Foreign Policy.
710 2 $aArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace.
710 2 $aAtlantic Council of the United States.
856 40 $3NFACP pdf:$uhttp://www.ncafp.org/publications/reports/2008/democracyfinal1-22-08.pdf
856 40 $3ACUS pdf:$uhttp://www.acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/65/Enhancing%20Democracy%20Assistance.pdf