Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Workshop
Module Offerings
7106IR-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To consider the US government’s use of democratisation as a stability building measure within the context of critical peacebuilding literature.
2. To enable students to identify how US administrations and key government departments included the language and practice of democracy promotion in key decision making through examining primary source material and secondary sources.
3. To enable students to present and defend arguments and interpretations in an appropriate and scholarly manner.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Evaluate and critique the way in which democracy promotion is explained and applied by the US government as a component to US foreign policy
2.
Understand and be able to discuss the identities of the states and societies that US democracy promotion is directed towards
3.
Understand and be able to discuss the roles of various US government departments and agencies involved in democracy promotion
4.
In applying critical theories, assess the successes and failures of US democracy promotion as a tool for developing democracy in countries
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The module is broken down into two sections. Section One examines the frameworks that support the US application of democracy promotion. Section Two introduces various US missions, for example, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and critically assesses whether they led to the development of democratic societies that protect the rights of people. In order to critically assess the US missions, and whether the states consolidated their democratic status or are on the path to being democratic societies this section explores five critical frameworks. These frameworks consolidate elements to what was discussed in the IR Theory module and are developed from post-colonialism, international critical theory, social constructivism, post-modernism and communitarianism.
Module Overview:
This module will engage with current discussions of US democracy promotion, an essential tool of contemporary US foreign policy. The module critically examines the US government's use of democratisation as a stability building measure. It aims to:
This module will engage with current discussions of US democracy promotion, an essential tool of contemporary US foreign policy. The module critically examines the US government's use of democratisation as a stability building measure. It aims to:
- consider the US government's use of democratisation as a stability building measure within the context of critical peace building literature
- enable you to identify how US administrations and key government departments included the language and practice of democracy promotion in key decision making
- enable you to present and defend arguments and interpretations in an appropriate and scholarly manner
Additional Information:This module will engage with current discussions of US democracy promotion, an essential tool of contemporary US foreign policy. The module critically examines the US government’s use of democratisation as a stability building measure.