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Even if constrained in their international choices, recipient countries of global health programmes hold the capacity to autonomously define and pursue their own strategies, policies, and ultimately attain political goals. This is comparatively demonstrated through the analysis of PEPFAR's implementation in Botswana, Ethiopia and South Africa.

Taking the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as case study, HIV/AIDS interventions – prevention, treatment, and an array of related health and development activities – constitute, in themselves, manifestations of the current U.S. global security project. However, irrespective of its hegemonic features, this project of power faces numerous limits and subversions. Whereas some concern the complexity generated by the adopted models of public-private partnership, others relate to the character of the relations established at different levels between partnership implementers and local target populations. However, those limits and subversions cannot be theorized as projects of counter-hegemony to the dominating political economy.

The monadic version of the democratic peace theory holds that democracies tend to be more peaceful than non-democracies. Drawn from Kant's original proposal in Perpetual Peace, the great majority of studies published so far tend to focus on concepts of negative peace (absence of war) & on strictly formal models of democracy (in many cases already consolidated). Approaching the young Russian democracy, this article seeks o apply the monadic version of the democratic peace theory to democratization processes & civil society development, suggesting an operational proximity of peace to Galtung & democracy to Gellner. References. Adapted from the source document.