Democracy promotion intends to correspond to norms and interests of Western democracies. However, these states are facing serious conflicts of aims: On the one hand they wish to promote liberal democratic values and procedures, on the other they pursue their own economic and security interests.
PRIF Study No. 20 Zwischen Normen und Interessen. Demokratieförderung als internationale Politik (Between Norms and Interests. Democracy Promotion as International Policy), edited by Jonas Wolff, Hans-Joachim Spanger and Hans-Jürgen Puhle asks - from a theoretical and comparative perspective - how states tackle these conflicting aims. The volume also examines which motives drive democracy promoters and asks for the determinants of democracy promotion. Six case studies examine the USA's and Germany's democracy promotion policies towards Bolivia, Ecuador, Turkey, Pakistan, Belarus and Russia.
This PRIF study is available at Nomos Publishing House. Contributions by: Aser Babajew, Niels Graf, Cemal Karakas, Annika E. Poppe, Daniel Schewe, Hans-Joachim Spanger, Bentje Woitschach, Jonas Wolff and Iris Wurm.