Democracy and International Relations is the first study of the relevance and applicability of international relations theory to the explanation of the contemporary global push for liberal democracy by the major western powers and international organizations - including the UN, the EU and the international financial institutions such as the World Bank, and the IMF. Contributors discuss the theory and practice of the push for the internationalization of liberal democracy - arguing for the inadequacy of conventional international relations theorists and outlining an alternative research programme for future work.

HAZEL SMITH is a Reader in International Relations at the University of Warwick. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, and has also been Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Why is there no International Democracy Theory?; H.Smith Modelling Democracy; K.Hutchings Discourse Ethics, Democratic Practice and the Possibility of Intercultural Understanding; V.Jabri Democracy and the Problem of Cultural Relativism: Normative Issues for International Politics; S.Lawson Democracy, Democratization and Foreign Policy in Post-Socialist Russia; M.Light State Business in Neo-Liberal Democracies in Latin America; J.Grugel 'Building Civil Society from the Outside': The Problematic Democratization of Central America; J.Pearce Striving for 'Real' Democracy in Africa: The Roles of International Donors and Civil Society in Zimbabwe; D.Pankhurst Democratizing the Unborn State: Palestine, the PLO and the Struggle for Democracy; P.Bennis Political Economy, Democracy and Transition: The Case of Hong Kong; G.Youngs Notes Bibliography Index