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      Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy
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      Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy book

      Temporal othering in international relations

      Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy

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      Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy book

      Temporal othering in international relations
      ByCathy Elliott
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 22 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618050
      Pages 214
      eBook ISBN 9781315618050
      Subjects Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Elliott, C. (2016). Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy: Temporal othering in international relations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618050

      ABSTRACT

      This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The book provides a detailed answer to these questions, examining the logic and the modes of thinking that made such a response possible through analysis of the stories we tell about ourselves: stories about time, history, development, civilisation and the ineluctable spread of democracy.

      Elliott argues that these narratives have become a key tool in enabling practices that differentiate selves from others, friends from enemies, the domestic from the foreign, civilisation from the barbarian. They operate with a particular conception of time and constitute a British, democratic, national identity by positing an "other" that is barbaric, alien, despotic, violent and backward. Such understandings are useful in wake of disaster, because they leave us with something to do: danger can be managed by bringing certain people and places up-to-date. However, this book shows that there are other stories to be told, and that it is possible to read stories about history against the grain and author alternative, less oppressive, versions.

      Providing a genealogy drawing on material from colonial and postcolonial Britain and Pakistan, including legislation, political discourse, popular culture and government projects, this book will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on democracy promotion; genealogy; critical border studies; poststructural IR; postcolonial politics; discourse analysis; identity/subjectivity; and "the war on terror".

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |21 pages

      Introduction

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      chapter 1|16 pages

      What is democracy promotion?

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      chapter 2|17 pages

      Democratic representation

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      chapter 3|27 pages

      Disordering histories

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      chapter 4|24 pages

      Authoring the codes elsewhere

      Colonial governmentality and teleological time

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      chapter 5|20 pages

      Blood in the codes

      Liberal governmentality, democracy and Pakistan

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      chapter 6|21 pages

      Twelve months that shook the world

      1989 and the Salman Rushdie affair

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      chapter 7|18 pages

      The art of integration

      Representing British Muslims

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      chapter |11 pages

      Conclusion

      Democracy promotion, time and the “radical ordinary”

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