Abstract
Since 1990, democracy promotion has become a prominent aim and strategy of the foreign and development policies of the established democracies in the global North-West. This political rise was premised on the assumption that in supporting the global spread of democratic regimes, finally, ‘values and interests reinforce each other’ (Talbott, 1996, 49).1 In fact, the ‘third wave of democratization’ (Huntington, 1991) and the end of the Cold War, in combination with paradigmatic shifts in academic and political debates, suggested that promoting democracy would contribute to a host of other goods, such as peace and stability, economic development, and poverty reduction. With democracy promotion, then, came a revival of the old liberal belief in the ‘unity of goodness’: the idea ‘that all good things go together and that the achievement of one desirable social goal aids the achievement of others’ (Huntington, 1970, 5; see Packenham, 1973, 123–9).
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