This book examines democracy promotion in international politics through responding, from a critical perspective, to a number of important questions raised today to democracy promoters when they seek to promote, assist or support democracy in other countries.

Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Who does democracy promotion and how? Chapter 3. Is democracy promotion about defence of values or about the safeguarding of interests? Chapter 4. Is Democracy Promotion Regime Change?
Chapter 5. Is democracy promotion context sensitive? Chapter 6. Is democracy promotion really limited to achieving political reform or does it aim to advance liberal economic reform?Chapter 7. Is democracy promotion reflective of and constructive of 'hegemonic' power relations? Conclusion: Democracy Promotion: What's Next?

Jeff Bridoux is Lecturer in International Politics/Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the Aberystwyth University. He is the author of American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction (Routledge, 2011), a monograph seeking to understand the outcome of US-led postwar reconstruction by providing a new analytical framework relying on a Gramscian concept of power.

Milja Kurki is Professor at the Department of International Politics. She was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project 'Political Economies of Democratisation' (2008-2012) and is the author of Causation in International Relations and Democratic Futures (Routledge, 2013).