书名: The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and International Order
作者: Nicolas Guilhot (Author)
出版社: Columbia University Press (March 15, 2005)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0231131240
ISBN-13: 978-0231131247
Book Description
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 an industry, dominated by "experts," ensconced in positions of power.
Guilhot's story begins in the 1950s when U.S. foreign policy experts promoted human rights and democracy as part of a "democratic international" to fight the spread of communism. Later, the unlikely convergence of anti-Stalinist leftists and the nascent neoconservative movement found a place in the Reagan administration. These "State Department Socialists," as they were known, created policies and organizations that provided financial and technical expertise to democratic movements, but also supported authoritarian, anti-communist regimes, particularly in Latin America.
Guilhot also traces the intellectual and social trajectories of key academics, policymakers, and institutions, including Seymour M. Lipset, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the "Chicago Boys," including Milton Friedman, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Ford Foundation. He examines the ways in which various individuals, or "double agents," were able to occupy pivotal positions at the junction of academe, national, and international institutions, and activist movements. He also pays particular attention to the role of the social sciences in transforming the old anti-Communist crusades into respectable international organizations that promoted progressive and democratic ideals, but did not threaten the strategic and economic goals of Western governments and businesses.
Guilhot's purpose is not to disqualify democracy promotion as a conspiratorial activity. Rather he offers new perspectives on the roles of various transnational human rights institutions and the policies they promote. Ultimately, his work proposes a new model for understanding the international politics of legitimate democratic order and the relation between popular resistance to globalization and the "Washington Consensus."
Review
"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 is an excellent source of information on the significant subjects of international relations, foreign policy, and human rights." -- Shreesh Juyal, International Journal
"An admirably rich and scholarly contribution to the new development agenda." -- International Sociology Review of Books
"Once in a while the publication of a doctoral thesis breaks some new ground. This is certainly the case for Nicolas Guilhot's meticulous study of the creation in the USA of a market for the export of democracy, the "double agents" -- the democracy doctors -- intimately involved and the raft of "neoliberal human rights" that provide the ideological framework for this export market. As all good books do, this one raises as many questions as it answers, and these are questions that scholars should be asking more and more loudly than they do in an era when some perverse forms of democracy are being aggressively exported round the world." -- Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science
"Nicolas Guilhot's wonderful book demystifies today's business of democracy promotion, unmasking the institutions and actors at the core of it." -- Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
About the Author
Nicolas Guilhot is research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre de Sociologie Européenne. He is the author of Financiers, philanthropes: Vocations éthiques et reproduction du capital à Wall Street depuis 1970.
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作者: Nicolas Guilhot (Author)
出版社: Columbia University Press (March 15, 2005)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0231131240
ISBN-13: 978-0231131247
Book Description
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 an industry, dominated by "experts," ensconced in positions of power.
Guilhot's story begins in the 1950s when U.S. foreign policy experts promoted human rights and democracy as part of a "democratic international" to fight the spread of communism. Later, the unlikely convergence of anti-Stalinist leftists and the nascent neoconservative movement found a place in the Reagan administration. These "State Department Socialists," as they were known, created policies and organizations that provided financial and technical expertise to democratic movements, but also supported authoritarian, anti-communist regimes, particularly in Latin America.
Guilhot also traces the intellectual and social trajectories of key academics, policymakers, and institutions, including Seymour M. Lipset, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the "Chicago Boys," including Milton Friedman, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Ford Foundation. He examines the ways in which various individuals, or "double agents," were able to occupy pivotal positions at the junction of academe, national, and international institutions, and activist movements. He also pays particular attention to the role of the social sciences in transforming the old anti-Communist crusades into respectable international organizations that promoted progressive and democratic ideals, but did not threaten the strategic and economic goals of Western governments and businesses.
Guilhot's purpose is not to disqualify democracy promotion as a conspiratorial activity. Rather he offers new perspectives on the roles of various transnational human rights institutions and the policies they promote. Ultimately, his work proposes a new model for understanding the international politics of legitimate democratic order and the relation between popular resistance to globalization and the "Washington Consensus."
Review
"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 is an excellent source of information on the significant subjects of international relations, foreign policy, and human rights." -- Shreesh Juyal, International Journal
"An admirably rich and scholarly contribution to the new development agenda." -- International Sociology Review of Books
"Once in a while the publication of a doctoral thesis breaks some new ground. This is certainly the case for Nicolas Guilhot's meticulous study of the creation in the USA of a market for the export of democracy, the "double agents" -- the democracy doctors -- intimately involved and the raft of "neoliberal human rights" that provide the ideological framework for this export market. As all good books do, this one raises as many questions as it answers, and these are questions that scholars should be asking more and more loudly than they do in an era when some perverse forms of democracy are being aggressively exported round the world." -- Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics and Political Science
"Nicolas Guilhot's wonderful book demystifies today's business of democracy promotion, unmasking the institutions and actors at the core of it." -- Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
About the Author
Nicolas Guilhot is research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre de Sociologie Européenne. He is the author of Financiers, philanthropes: Vocations éthiques et reproduction du capital à Wall Street depuis 1970.
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