Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy

Most work on democracy promotion focuses on the conventional and state-based practices and projects of embassies, development agencies and NGOs. This innovative book recognises the influential distinction between Foreign Policy, as conventionally understood, and foreign policy as the complex of practices that constitutes objects as foreign in the first place. The author explores democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy, revealing how democracy is thought about and understood in Britain and globally. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of democracy promotion; critical border studies; poststructural IR; postcolonial politics; discourse analysis; and identity.

Cathy Elliott is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Public Policy, University College London. She previously worked as a development manager in Pakistan. Her research interests include poststructural international relations; time, temporality and history; politics and aesthetics and feminism and gender.