Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and index.
Table of Contents
Why is there no international democratic theory? / Hazel Smith -- Modelling democracy / Kimberly Hutchings -- Discourse ethics, deomcratic practice and the possibility of intercultural understanding / Vivienne Jabri -- Democracy and the problems of cultural relativism : normative issues for international politics / Stephanie Lawson -- Democracy, democratisation and foreign policy in post-Socialist Russia / Margot Light -- State and business in neo-liberal democracies in Latin America / Jean Grugel -- 'Building civil society from the outside' : the problematic democratisation of Central America / Jenny Pearce -- Striving for 'real' democracy in Africa : the roles of international donors and civil society in Zimbabwe / Donna Pankhurst -- Democratising the unborn state : Palestine, the PLO and the struggle for democracy / Phyllis Bennis -- Political economy, democracy and transition : the case of Hong Kong / Gillian Youngs.