Decentring the West : the idea of democracy and the struggle for hegemony
We live in a world where democracy is almost universally accepted as the only legitimate form of government but what makes a society democratic remains far from clear. Liberal democratic values are both relativized by the self-description of many non-democratic regimes as 'local' or '...
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2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : locating international democracy / Viatcheslav Morozov
- 2. Taking democracy seriously / Artemy Magun
- 3. Russia and 'international democracy' : unlocking the concept / Andrey Makarychev
- 4. Modelling democracy : western hegemony, Turkey and the Middle East / Bahar Rumelili
- 5. The regional and the universal : the new democratic discourses in the Russian Federation and Latin America / Elena Pavlova
- 6. Democracy and counter-hegemony in Latin America : the cases of Bolivia and Venezuela / João Marcelo E. Maia and Maurício Santoro
- 7. Brazil and south-south relations : alternative settings of leadership and institutionalization / Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo
- 8. Harmonious democracy : China's quest for stability and justice / Alexander V. Lomanov
- 9. Decentring the west from within : Estonian discourses on Russian democracy / Maria Mälksoo
- 10. Disputed democratic identities : the case of Danish-Swedish discord / Pertti Joenniemi.