TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating U.S. democracy promotion in the balkans
T2 - Ironies, inconsistencies, and unexamined influences
AU - Brown, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
KEITH BROWN is an associate research professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Research for this paper was made possible by grants from NCEEER and IREX. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 2008. He is grateful to the other panelists, Bob Huber, Kathryn Hendley, and Kathryn Anderson, for their comments. He also thanks Mila Dragojevic, Erica Haskell, and Cornelia Wilkinson for research assistance and insights.
PY - 2009/5/1
Y1 - 2009/5/1
N2 - Most reports assessing USAID-funded democracy-promotion projects are exercises in information control and management, rather than knowledge production or circulation. Some examples from Kosovo and Macedonia illustrate the types of distortions that can result when agendas and interests trump clear-eyed and objective assessment.
AB - Most reports assessing USAID-funded democracy-promotion projects are exercises in information control and management, rather than knowledge production or circulation. Some examples from Kosovo and Macedonia illustrate the types of distortions that can result when agendas and interests trump clear-eyed and objective assessment.
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U2 - 10.2753/PPC1075-8216560301
DO - 10.2753/PPC1075-8216560301
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:68149162610
SN - 1075-8216
VL - 56
SP - 3
EP - 15
JO - Problems of Post-Communism
JF - Problems of Post-Communism
IS - 3
ER -