Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6106IRP-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.
Identify the identities of the states and societies that US democracy promotion is directed towards
3.
Critically reflect on 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:
This module explores democracy promotion in multiple ways. The module first engages you with an understanding of US foreign policy, and includes discussions on a series of issues in the field such as American values and interests and how they are balanced, the role of American exceptionalism in shaping contemporary democracy promotion, the importance of modernisation theory and transitology (transition theory) in driving the mechanics of democratising targeted places, and breaking down democracy promotion into three analytical levels: conceptual; articulation, and implementation. Second, it looks at USDP at the articulation level by exploring its evolution from the Cold War period of the Carter and Reagan administrations through to the post-Cold war days of the Bush and Clinton administrations and ending up in the post-9/11 era of the Bush administration and the post-unipolar era of the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In each of these administrations a series of examples are used to illustrate their conceptual, articulation and implementation efforts at promoting democracy. Third, we look at USDP at the implementation level. This sets up a focused interrogation of recent cases of democracy promotion in action. It examines, in particular, largescale US missions in places such as Afghanistan (2001- present day) and Iraq (2003-2010), and in places where its involvement was less involved or at a smaller scale such as Libya (2011 – present day) and Latin America.
This module explores democracy promotion in multiple ways. The module first engages you with an understanding of US foreign policy, and includes discussions on a series of issues in the field such as American values and interests and how they are balanced, the role of American exceptionalism in shaping contemporary democracy promotion, the importance of modernisation theory and transitology (transition theory) in driving the mechanics of democratising targeted places, and breaking down democracy promotion into three analytical levels: conceptual; articulation, and implementation. Second, it looks at USDP at the articulation level by exploring its evolution from the Cold War period of the Carter and Reagan administrations through to the post-Cold war days of the Bush and Clinton administrations and ending up in the post-9/11 era of the Bush administration and the post-unipolar era of the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In each of these administrations a series of examples are used to illustrate their conceptual, articulation and implementation efforts at promoting democracy. Third, we look at USDP at the implementation level. This sets up a focused interrogation of recent cases of democracy promotion in action. It examines, in particular, largescale US missions in places such as Afghanistan (2001- present day) and Iraq (2003-2010), and in places where its involvement was less involved or at a smaller scale such as Libya (2011 – present day) and Latin America.
Module Overview:
This module provides you with a critical reflection on the application of democracy promotion by successive US governments, and questions whether democracy promotion as employed by the US delivers democracy.
This module provides you with a critical reflection on the application of democracy promotion by successive US governments, and questions whether democracy promotion as employed by the US delivers democracy.
Additional Information:
This module provides a critical reflection on the application of democracy promotion by successive US governments, and questions whether democracy promotion as employed by the US delivers democracy. For students to develop their ability to improve an assessment based on feedback, the students must choose the same question or report in AS1 to present what they then submit in AS2.
This module provides a critical reflection on the application of democracy promotion by successive US governments, and questions whether democracy promotion as employed by the US delivers democracy. For students to develop their ability to improve an assessment based on feedback, the students must choose the same question or report in AS1 to present what they then submit in AS2.