Towards a theory of external democracy promotion
Towards a theory of external democracy promotion
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走向外部民主促进理论
DOI：
10.1177/0967010610393551
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Iris Wurm
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作者：
Jonas Wolff;Iris Wurm
几年前，人们普遍抱怨说，比较政治和国际关系学者在很大程度上忽视了民主化的国际层面，特别是民主的对外促进。到目前为止，学术研究已经开始赶上明确旨在在国际上促进和保护民主制度的外交和发展政策的增长。然而，从理论上把握“促进民主”作为民主外交政策的目标和策略，也就是说，将促进民主的实证研究嵌入到国际关系的理论视角中，这在很大程度上仍然是一个未被探索的愿望。本文旨在通过对相互竞争的理论方法进行分类来填补这一空白。首先，对民主和平的研究- -涉及民主外交政策的一个主要研究项目- -被用来得出促进民主背后的潜在动机。然后，在此基础上，修改现有的国际关系理论，以便将民主促进置于民主国家的外交政策之中。最后，本文提出了四个潜在的理论途径，以促进民主的外部。
A few years ago, it was a common complaint that the international dimension of democratization and, in particular, the external promotion of democracy were largely neglected by scholars of comparative politics and international relations. By now, academic research has begun to catch up with the growth of foreign and development policies explicitly aiming at the international promotion and protection of democratic regimes. Yet, what is still a largely unexplored desideratum is the challenge to theoretically grasp ‘democracy promotion’ as an aim and strategy of democratic foreign policies – that is, to embed the empirical research on democracy promotion in theoretical perspectives on international relations. This article sets out to contribute to filling this gap by developing a classification of competing theoretical approaches. First, research on the democratic peace – the one major research program concerned with democratic foreign policy – is used to derive potential motives behind the promotion of democracy. Then, on this basis, existing theories of international relations are modified in order to locate democracy promotion within the foreign policy of democratic states. In conclusion, the article presents four sketches of potential theoretical approaches to the external promotion of democracy.