Nelli Babayan

Democratic Transformation and Obstruction (eBook, ePUB)

EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317750611
• Artikelnr.: 41501600

Autorenporträt

Nelli Babayan is a Senior Researcher in the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction PART I DEMOCRACY
PROMOTION, DEMOCRATIZATION, TRANSFORMATION 1. The Hybridism of Democratic
Transformation 2. Conditions of Democratic Transformation, Cases, and
Methods PART II LOCAL INGREDIENTS OF THE GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC RECIPE 3. The
South Caucasus: The Road to Democracy or a Blind Alley? 4. The EU and the
US: Confusion, Ambitions, and the Reality PART III SECTORAL DEMOCRATIC
TRANSFORMATION 5. Elections in the South Caucasus: A Potemkin Village
rather than a Solid Construction 6. Parties in the South Caucasus: Do They
Really Matter? 7. Media in the South Caucasus: The Watchdog May Bark but
Rarely Bite Conclusions: The Damsel in Distress and the Bully in the
Sandbox Bibliography