Democracy Promotion and Civilian Power
The Example of Germany's ‘Value-Oriented’ Foreign Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6263085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonas Wolff (0000-0002-7348-7206, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-493 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644008.2013.853043 |
| OpenAlex | W1994757858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 13 |
While Germany is generally considered one of the most important democracy promoters, there is still limited work on the German approach to promoting democracy. There is a general understanding that Germany - as a civilian power - should be guided by democratic values in its external affairs, but it is neither theoretically nor empirically very clear what this means for the actual practice of democracy promotion. The present paper contributes to filling this gap by (1) locating democracy promotion as a foreign policy aim and instrument in the role conception of civilian power, (2) summarising the fragmented state of the art on German democracy promotion, (3) presenting results of a qualitative content analysis in order to reconstruct the main features of the official outline of German democracy promotion, and (4) confronting these programmatic findings with a brief comparative view on the practice of German democracy promotion towards Bolivia, Turkey and Russia
Democracy · Democracy promotion · Democratization · Direct democracy · Foreign policy · Geography · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration
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The rise of the trading state
The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion
The State of the Art in International Democracy Promotion
National Role Conceptions in the Study of Foreign Policy
The End of the Transition Paradigm
Democracy Assistance
Political Culture and State Behavior
Same War—Different Views
Germany and the use of military force
Democracy promotion, empowerment, and self-determination
Democracy and Nuclear Arms Control—Destiny or Ambiguity
Foreign political aid
Germany and Japan
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |