Democratização e Ajuda ao Desenvolvimento na Bósnia-Herzegovina e na Federação Russa. Uma perspectiva critica.Coimbra : [s.n.], 2013. Tese de doutoramento (original) (raw)

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to critically analyze the processes of developmental aid and democratization in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) and the Russian Federation (Russia). The interest of this project is linked to the idea that, in the context of global liberal governance, Eastern Europe seems to constitute the new focus of euro-american imperialism. This thesis, supported by a postcolonial/descolonial framework and by recent critical studies of the liberal peace, aims to investigate this idea. Specifically, one wishes to analyze in which measure can the present politics of cooperation to development and democratization in BiH and Russia constitute forms of western domination, supported on the one hand, by a ‘normative power’, associated to the liberal discourse of human rights, democracy and civil society and, on the other hand, by specific economic, political, ideological or social practices. Although the focus of this analysis are the NGOs linked to human rights and democr...

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