Wyzwania polityki budowania państw (state-building) w doświadczeniach USA i UE. Przykład iracki

Abstract

State-building policies deployed by the USA and European Union countries since 1990s have been analysed in regards to the challenges connected with regional destabilization and internal deconstruction. USA’s and EU’s involvement in said policies, coupled with the strengththening (or creating new) of state administration bodies, encouraging a democratic, rule of law state and constitutional order was explained in terms of both expansion of Western influence and as actual attempts at improving international security by replacing fallen countries with stable democratic ones. A common direction for American and European actions were large-scale interventions. Their aim was both to provide foundation for democratic state structure and to improve international security by removing the “safety vacuum” that existed in areas outside international alliances of internally-conflicted states which were home to movements threatening the order set by world powers and organizations of regional co-operation. The instruments used by the USA and the EU in their state-building policies connected with supporting democratization processes point to common ideology in terms of structural and axiological foundations of democratic rule. Additionally, as evidenced by their activity in Iraq, both aim at international popularization of said actions.