International Lawyers as Hope Mongers: How Did We Come to Believe That Democracy Was Here to Stay?

Işıl Aral
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It is common these days to lament the recession of democracy around the world. The way scholars address the issue of democratic backsliding shows that there is a significant gap between the expectation about democracy’s anticipated course of development and the current state of affairs. This article argues that the expectation that democracy would consolidate over time was produced by the progress narrative of democratic governance discourses. Drawing on narratology, it conducts a discourse analysis to demonstrate that today’s dismay about the recession of democracy is due to an unwarranted expectation that was created by the progress narrative of democratic governance discourses. It focuses on the periodisation of history in the construction of these discourses and investigates how scholars used the Cold War – post-Cold War dichotomy to create a progress narrative.
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作为希望蛊惑者的国际律师:我们是如何相信民主永存的?
如今,人们普遍感叹世界各地民主的衰退。学者们探讨民主倒退问题的方式表明,人们对民主发展进程的预期与现状之间存在巨大差距。本文认为,民主将随着时间的推移而得到巩固的预期是由民主治理话语的进步叙事所产生的。文章借鉴叙事学,进行了话语分析,以证明今天人们对民主衰退的失望是由于对民主治理话语的进步叙事所产生的不切实际的期望。文章重点探讨了在构建这些论述时的历史分期问题,并研究了学者们是如何利用冷战-后冷战二分法来创造进步叙事的。
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期刊介绍: The object of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d"histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, without projecting present relationships upon the past, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of current international legal problems. The aim of the Journal is to open fields of inquiry, to enable new questions to be asked, to be awake to and always aware of the plurality of human civilizations and cultures, past and present.
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