Democracy From the Outside-In? : Democracy Promotion in Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9783639022865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str.

Daniel Silander

Opis

This study explores the literature on factors favorable to democratization; in particular the phenomenon of democracy promotion in international politics. It is argued that there has been a domestic dominance, with international factors a forgotten dimension. It is also argued that the limited body of work dealing with international factors has been empirical in nature. This study sheds lights on one international factor in democracy promotion. The theoretical contribution of this study is the presented analytical framework for democracy promotion. The empirical contribution is to provide an improved understanding of democracy promotion and democratization in postcommunist Europe. This is done by analyzing the role of the EU as democracy promoter in Slovakia, Belarus and FRY from 1995 to 2003.

O autorze

Daniel Silander is a Senior Lecturer at Vaxjo University,
Sweden. Dr. Silander''s main expertise includes the areas of
democratization and democracy promoting measures, globalization
and proliferation of norms, and the European Union.