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Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge
Author(s): Thomas Carothers
- Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
- Publication Date: 26 Jan. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 0870032194
- ISBN-13: 9780870032196
Book Description
Promoting the rule of law has become a major part of Western efforts to spread democracy and market economics around the world. Although programs to foster the rule of law abroad have mushroomed, well-grounded knowledge about what factors ensure success, and why, remains scarce. In Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad, leading practitioners and policy-oriented scholars draw on years of experience-in Russia, China, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa- to critically assess the rationale, methods, and goals of rule-of-law policies. These incisive, accessible essays offer vivid portrayals and penetrating analyses of the challenges that define this vital but often misunderstood field.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Once again, as he did with democratization, Thomas Carothers has taken a topic with grand rhetorical appeal that is subject to multiple meanings and brought it down to earth for both scholars and practitioners.” –Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs”
About the Author
Thomas Carothers is vice president for international politics and governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, USA, and founder and director of the Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Project.
