© Columbia University Press
The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and International Order
May, 2005
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13124-7
$51.00
/ £35.00
Introduction: The Cosmopolitics of Democratization
1. Civic virtue and the aristocratic project of “global civil society”
2. Idealism and professionalism
3. Double-agents
4. Understanding hegemony
5. A sociology of transnational symbolic power
6. Organization of the book
Part 1: From Cold Warriors to Human Rights Activists
1. The Cold War, the fight against totalitarianism, and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
2. The social sciences and the defense of democracy
3. A temporary set-back
4. From the old Left to neoconservatism: the leftist condottieri of the Cold War
5. A democracy worth defending: scientific premises of political conversion
6. From revolution to counter-revolution
Part 2: The Field of Democracy and Human Rights: Shaping a Professional Arena Around the “Neoliberal” Consensus
1. From the ideological struggles around “human rights” to the “promotion of democracy”
2. The continuation of the Cold War through other means: the National Endowment for Democracy and the rise of the democracy professionals
3. From the Young People Socialist League to the NED: the itinerary of Carl Gershman
4. From moral crusades to professional expertise
Part 3: From the Development Engineers to the Democracy Doctors: The Rise and Fall of Modernizatin Theory
1. Cold thought: modernization theory and Cold War policies
2. Modernization as a disciplinary stake
3. The economic production of democracy
4. “A man on the Left”: Seymour Martin Lipset and the political meaning of modernity
5. The crisis of modernization theory and the Latin American connection
6. The ambiguous demise of modernization theory
7. Modernization, dependency, democracy: the intellectual trajectory of Guillermo O'Donnell
8. The journey from structuralism to palace strategies
Part 4: Democratization Studies and the Construction of a New Orthodoxy
1. Scholarly institutions, liberal networks and transitions to democracy
2. A farewell to arms: from a critique of the state to a science of elite reformism
3. Imperium honoratiorum
4. A strategic position in the scientific field
5. “Dictatorships and double standards”: the neoconservative doctrine
6. Democracy and the Washington consensus
Part 5: International Relations Theory and the Emancipatory Narrative of Human Rights Networks
1. The new idealism in the social sciences and international relations
2. The social construction of social constructivism
3. The epistemological production of global moral actors
4. The academic saga of human rights networks and US foreign policy
5. The champions of global civic virtue
Part 6: Financing the Construction of “Market Democracies”: The World Bank and the Global Supervision of “Good Governance”
1. A history made of reversals
2. Bankers, bureaucrats and economists at the Bank
3. The debt crisis and the Washington consensus
4. From development economics to neoclassical economics
5. Changing patterns of policy legitimation
6. “Good governance” as the structural adjustment of political regimes
7. NGOs, issue networks and policy brokerage
Conclusion