The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A conceptual history by Haack, Kirsten

Manchester University Press, 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780719079818

Manchester University Press, 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780719079818

Manchester University Press, 2011-12-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 168pp. (blue spine) large 8vo. 2011. First edition. Original publisher's blue boards - silver embossed to the spine. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. The head and tail of the spine a little bumped with slight associated creasing to the overlying jacket. A former owner's name and date in black biro to the head of the front endpaper. The jacket has not been price-clipped. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket.

New. The United Nations Democracy Agenda is a critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four 'visions' of democracy: civilization, elections, governance and developmental democracy. "I know it when I see it" were the famous words of US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on defining obscenity. It is with the same conviction and (un)certainty with which liberal peacebuilders and democracy promoters have used democracy to achieve both the immediate goals of peacekeeping and the broader, global mission of the United Nations. Today democracy may have gained an international dimension, yet its success as an organizational practice depends on how democracy has been defined. Drawing on political theory and democratization scholarship, The United Nations Democracy Agenda questions the meaning of this well-'known' idea. The book analyses the way in which the UN, through its Secretary-General, relevant agencies and… Read More