Milja Kurki

Milja Kurki is lecturer in international politics at Aberystwyth University. She is the principal investigator of the Political Economies of Democratisation project, based at the department of international politics, Aberystwyth University

Democracy promotion and crisis of democracy in the West

The crises of the western model of democracy mean that more than ever ‘the field is open’ (Zizek) for paradigm shifts in thinking on the relationship between democracy and markets – in the west, and in the promulgation of the west’s agendas in third countries, through democracy support.

By Milja Kurki

/ 3 Jan 2012

Democracy and democracy-support: a new era

Democracy's ascendant position in world politics has in recent years been brought into question. The triumphant proclamations of the "end of history" after 1989 - the

By Christopher Hobson and Milja Kurki

/ 20 Mar 2009