Regime Dynamics in Eu's Eastern Neighbourhood: Eu Democracy Promotion, International Influences, and Domestic Contexts

ISBN-13: 9781349958931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 270 str.

Sergiu Buscaneanu

Spis treści

I. Introduction

1. "The Elephant" and Democracy Promotion

2. Method

3. Argument

4. Relevance of the Book

5. Structure of the Book

II. The External Dimension of Democratisation

1. Domestic vs. External Factors

2. Promoting or Demoting Democracy?

3. External Factors of Democracy Promotion

4. Zooming In: EU Deomcracy Promotion

5. Conclusions: The External Dimensions

III. Theoretical Knowledge and Democratisation

1. The Object of Study

2. Analytical Framework

3. From Theoretical Knowledge to Indicators

4. Analytical Model

5. Method

6. Conclusions: Theoretical Knowledge

IV. EU Democracy Promotion

1. EU Democracy: Promotion Discourse

2. Conditionality and Socialisation under the ENP

3. EU and Regime Dynamics in Eastern Neighbourhood

4. ENP Action Plans

5. Conclusions: EU Democracy Promotion

V. International Influences

1. Leverage of (Non-EU) Democratic West vs. Russia

2. Linkage with (Non-EU) Democratic West vs. Russia

3. Democratic Diffusion

4. Conclusions: International Influence

VI. Domestic Contexts

1. Cost-Benefit of Rule Transfer
2. Structural Determinants

3. Institutional Determinants

4. Actor-related Determinants

5. Conclusions: Domestic Contexts

VII. Synergetic Effects of Domestic, EU and International Factors

1. Configurational Logic

2. Configurational Logic vs. Case Studies and Argument

3. Probabilistic Logic

4. Conclusions: Synergistic Effects

VIII. Conclusions

1. Results and Argument

2. Theoretical and Policy Implications3. Methodological Implications

O autorze

Sergiu Buscaneanu is Research Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany. He has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Hamburg, Germany. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Buscaneanu has been a Chevening, EMECW, and DAAD Scholar and currently serves as a country expert for the V-Dem project.

Blurb

This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014. It concludes that the EU’s democratization role in this region was, not surprisingly, weak within this time period. However, this weak role only took shape under four domestic and transnational conditions: (a) a higher cost-benefit balance of rule transfer, (b) a lower structural difficulty a given country would need to overcome on its way towards a democratic regime, (c) increased levels of authority distribution across branches of power, and (d) a higher extent of democratic diffusion resulting from regional interactions. In those countries where these domestic and transnational conditions were present, as in Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia, the EU’s democratizing influence was in causal terms only the tip of the iceberg. Most variation in regime dynamics remains to be explained by domestic and transnational contexts.