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Promoting democracy, reinforcing authoritarianism : US and European policy in Jordan / Benjamin Schuetze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schuetze, Benjamin, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge Middle East studies.
- Cambridge Middle East studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Jordan.
- Democracy.
- Authoritarianism--Jordan.
- Authoritarianism.
- Democracy--Government policy--European Union countries.
- Democracy--Government policy--United States.
- Jordan--Politics and government--1999-.
- Jordan.
- European Union countries--Foreign relations--Jordan.
- European Union countries.
- Jordan--Foreign relations--European Union countries.
- United States--Foreign relations--Jordan.
- United States.
- Jordan--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 256 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Appearing against the backdrop of Jordan's remarkable levels of authoritarian stability and accounting for Jordan being one of the highest recipients of US and European 'democracy promotion' funding, Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism examines what external 'democracy promoters' actually do when they promote democracy. By examining why Jordanian authoritarianism is so stable, not despite but in part because of external attempts at 'democracy promotion', Benjamin Schuetze demonstrates the depth of Orientalist attitudes among 'democracy promoters'. In highlighting the undermining of democratic values as they become circumscribed by the free market and security concerns, Schuetze suggests that although US and European policy in Jordan comes under the cloak of a universal morality which claims the surmounting of authoritarianism as its objective, its effect is not that different to traditional modes of imperial support for authoritarian regimes. As a result, this is a vivid illustration of what greater US and European policy presence in the Global South really means.
- Contents:
- 'Democracy promotion' and moral authority
- Who's afraid of politics?
- Supporting, mobilising for, and ignoring Jordanian elections
- The Jordanian civil society market
- Break on through to the other side
- Securing Jordan
- Imperial coercion, liberal intervention and the rise of populist politics.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Nov 2019).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-66582-9
- 1-108-62660-2
- 1-108-62368-9
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