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Although "democracy promotion" has become a popular term for policy
makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear
transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag
behind despite a long period of democracy promotion activities.
Furthermore, while democracy promotion itself has been widely
studied, there is a paucity of literature available assessing the
outcome or the impact of democracy promotion. This book
investigates democracy promotion by the European Union and the
United States of America, and seeks to uncover why intensive
democracy promotion has resulted in limited democratic progress.
Exploring case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, this
book examines the conditions in which democracy promotion is more
likely to result in democratic transformation. In addition, it
introduces the concept of the "democracy blocker," a powerful
authoritarian regional actor that is capable of blocking
democratization in other countries. This book will be of interest
to students and scholars of Political Science, Democracy,
Democratization, EU Studies, US Politics, Comparative Politics, and
Foreign Policy.
This book examines Western efforts at democracy promotion,
reactions by illiberal challengers and regional powers, and
political and societal conditions in target states. It is argued
that Western powers are not unequivocally committed to the
promotion of democracy and human rights, while non-democratic
regional powers cannot simply be described as "autocracy
supporters". This volume examines in detail the challenges by three
illiberal regional powers - China, Russia and Saudi Arabia - to
Western (US and EU) efforts at democracy promotion. The
contributions specifically analyze their actions in Ethiopia and
Angola in the case of China, Georgia and Ukraine in the case of
Russia, and Tunisia in the case of Saudi Arabia. Democratic powers
such as the US or the EU usually prefer stability over human rights
and democracy. If democratic movements threaten stability in a
region, neither the US nor the EU supports them. As to illiberal
powers, they are generally not that different from their democratic
counterparts. They also prefer stability over turmoil. Neither
Russia nor China nor Saudi Arabia explicitly promote autocracy.
Instead, they seek to suppress democratic movements in their
periphery the minute these groups threaten their security interests
or are perceived to endanger their regime survival. This was
previously published as a special issue of Democratization.
The book investigates democracy promotion by the European Union and
the United States of America, and seeks to uncover why extensive
and intensive democracy promotion results in limited democratic
progress. Targeting three sectors of democracy promotion-elections,
parties, and the media- this book examines the conditions for which
democracy promotion is more likely to result in democratic
transformation. Though democracy promotion has been widely studied,
there is a paucity of literature available assessing the outcome or
the impact of democracy promotion. Including case studies on
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, this book assesses the success of
democratic transformation on the macro level of a country and micro
levels of specific sectors. The book introduces the concept of
democracy blocker-a powerful authoritarian regional actor - who,
even if not explicitly promoting autocracy, is willing and capable
to block democratization in other countries. The author argues that
the chances of democratic behaviour increase provided the domestic
costs of adaptation to democracy are moderate and promoters are
actively involved in resolution of pressing national issues.This
book will be of interest to students and scholars of Policial
Science, Democracy, Democratization, EU Studies, U.S. Politics,
Comparative Politics and Foreign Policy.
This book examines Western efforts at democracy promotion,
reactions by illiberal challengers and regional powers, and
political and societal conditions in target states. It is argued
that Western powers are not unequivocally committed to the
promotion of democracy and human rights, while non-democratic
regional powers cannot simply be described as "autocracy
supporters". This volume examines in detail the challenges by three
illiberal regional powers - China, Russia and Saudi Arabia - to
Western (US and EU) efforts at democracy promotion. The
contributions specifically analyze their actions in Ethiopia and
Angola in the case of China, Georgia and Ukraine in the case of
Russia, and Tunisia in the case of Saudi Arabia. Democratic powers
such as the US or the EU usually prefer stability over human rights
and democracy. If democratic movements threaten stability in a
region, neither the US nor the EU supports them. As to illiberal
powers, they are generally not that different from their democratic
counterparts. They also prefer stability over turmoil. Neither
Russia nor China nor Saudi Arabia explicitly promote autocracy.
Instead, they seek to suppress democratic movements in their
periphery the minute these groups threaten their security interests
or are perceived to endanger their regime survival. This was
previously published as a special issue of Democratization.
This book suggests studying democracy promotion within the
framework of international socialization through the perspectives
of the constructivist and rationalist approaches. It argues that
for effective democracy promotion, the strategy of conditionality
and incentives should be applied, especially in regard to countries
with no prior democratic experience. This study analyzes democracy
promotion programmes of the European Union, the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Council of Europe in
Armenia and Georgia and cases of norm transfer initiated by the
European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Hungary,
Lithuania and Poland.
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