please find below a CfP! We look forward to your paper proposals!
Solveig Richter & Sonja Grimm
Call for Papers
Section No. 13: Challenges of Democracy Promotion: Do “all good things go together”?
for the 7th Pan-European Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations, Stockholm
Sweden, 9-11 September 2010.
Democracy promotion is often pursued under the umbrella of “All good things go together!” Positively evaluated items like peace, stability, prosperity, freedom, good governance and rule of law are expected to be strengthened by the implementation of democratic institutions. However, various problems arise if such an instrumental understanding of democracy support is applied. Firstly, international actors tend to overload their democracy promotion agendas. In doing so, they, secondly, raise expectations that can hardly be fulfilled. Finally, risky conflicts of objective may evolve.
Political science research has been emphasizing the problem of goal conflicts in democracy promotion. A vast amount of literature has emerged in different subdisciplines. For instance, peace researchers are interested in the compatibility of democracy promotion and peace building, and development studies ask whether democracy is best suited to promote socio-economic development. Although the individual research results might be of equal importance to understand and explain the effectiveness of democracy promotion policy, no major efforts have hitherto been made to bring them together.
This section pursues two aims: Given certain goal conflicts, we seek to empirically clarify what democracy promoters aim at and what they effectively achieve in the end. Secondly, we aim at analyzing significant goal conflicts and their effects by systematically taking into account different strands of literature. Paper givers are invited to clarify the main purposes of democracy promotion policies and to highlight possible trade-offs between democracy promotion and security, peace building, state
building, empowerment, and capacity building respectively.
You submit your paper for the whole section, but please indicate your preference for a panel (see below) in the Abstract.
Please submit your paper proposals via the conference homepage (online submission system at http://www.sgir.eu/conference) and send it by E-Mail to the section convenors (Note: Papers can only by accepted if they are submitted via the online submission system).
The closing date for paper proposals is January 31, 2010.
Accepted participants will be notified March 1, 2010.
Section Convenors:
Dr. Sonja Grimm, Senior Researcher, University of Konstanz, Department of Politics and Management, Box 86, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany, sonja.grimm@ uni-konstanz. de
Dr. Solveig Richter, Senior Research Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, D-10719 Berlin, Germany, solveig.richter@ swp-berlin. org
Panels
1) Democracy Promotion vs. Security
Based on the liberal peace paradigm, democracy promotion is regarded as a strategy to enhance international security. This panel analyses the relationship between these goals and thereby focuses on potential tensions: In what way does democracy promotion foster security and whose security is this? How can unintended consequences undermine international security and under which circumstances is democracy promotion neglected for the sake of strengthening ties with “friendly” dictators (e.g. in the war on terror)?
Panel Chair: Dr. Tatjana Reiber, Helmut-Schmidt- University Hamburg, reiber@hsu-hh. de
Discussant: Dr. Carrie Manning, Associate Professor, Georgia State University
2) Democracy Promotion vs. Peace Building
The purpose of this panel is to clarify the positive and negative impact of democracy promotion on the consolidation of peace in conflict prone societies. In what way does democracy promotion aim at, and how does democracy promotion contribute to peace building? How do “democracy promoters” react to unintended consequences of democracy promotion in conflict prone societies?
Panel Chair: Dr. Sonja Grimm, University of Konstanz, sonja.grimm@ uni-konstanz. de
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Anna Jarstad, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University
3) Democracy Promotion vs. State Building
Contributions to this panel aim at analysing the relation between stateness and democracy. Whereas it is uncontested that a minimal state must be in place in order to support democracy effectively, we know little about the necessary characteristics of this state. What features does a state require in order to promote democracy effectively? Do we face a sequencing issue (first state-building, second democracy promotion)?
Panel Chair: Dr. cand. Julia Leininger, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitk (DIE), Julia.Leininger@ die-gdi.de
Discussant: Dr. Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington
4) Democracy Promotion vs. Empowerment
The purpose of this panel is to clarify the relationship between democracy promotion and empowerment (i.e., the political empowerment of marginalized sectors of society in formal democracies) . In what way does democracy promotion aim at, and how does democracy promotion contribute to empowerment? How do “democracy promoters” react to processes of empowerment that challenge their more institutionalist aims?
Panel Chair: Dr. Jonas Wolff, PRIF Frankfurt, wolff@hsfk.de
Discussant: Dr. Richard Youngs, FRIDE Madrid
5) Democracy Promotion vs. Functional Cooperation
Aiming at the effective solution of problems, in particular through capacity building, cooperation with authoritarian regimes is said to increase the latter’s output-legitimacy. This panel challenges this argument. To what extent might cooperation between a (democratic) external actor and authoritarian regimes be a promising way of transferring democratic rules and practices? Conversely, what kind of trade-offs arise between antagonistic or synergetic effects of value- vs. interest-based policies?
Panel Chair: Tina Freyburg, Centre for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), ETH Zurich, freyburg@eup. gess.ethz. ch and Dr. Solveig Richter, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, solveig.richter@ swp-berlin. org
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Oliver Schlumberger, University of Tübingen
Dr. Solveig Richter
Forschungsgruppe "EU-Außenbeziehungen "
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4
10719 Berlin
Tel: +49-(0)30-88007- 458
Fax: +49-(0)30-88007- 5458
E-Mail: solveig.richter@ swp-berlin. org
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