United Nations and Democracy Promotion: Liberalism under the Guise of a Neutral Rhetoric
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2019
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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The United Nations (UN) has been one of the prominent actors of global democracy promotion efforts, particularly after the end of the Cold War. The UN refrains from openly espousing a certain model of democracy, hence the adoption of a neutral rhetoric by default. However, the UN’s neutrality towards different models of democracy is merely a thinly veiled attempt to disguise the inherent liberal character of its democracy promotion agenda. In its essence, democracy is an essentially contested concept, nevertheless, following the end of the Cold War, one specific interpretation of democracy, i.e. liberal democracy has reached a hegemonic status, and UN’s democracy promotion agenda has not been spared from this hegemony. Thus, this article’s main intent is to show that hegemonic liberal democracy features heavily within UN’s democracy promotion, which goes against its neutral rhetoric. The UN’s liberal tendency is visible both in UNDP electoral support and in peacebuilding operations which is based on the dual premise of conducting elections along with making target countries’ economies more market-friendly.
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10
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