1st Edition
Democracy Promotion and the Challenges of Illiberal Regional Powers
1. Democracy promotion and the challenges of illiberal regional powers
Thomas Risse and Nelli Babayan
2. Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander?
Dingding Chen and Katrin Kinzelbach
3. Not as bad as it seems: EU and US democracy promotion faces China in Africa
Christine Hackenesch
4. The return of the empire? Russia’s counteraction to transatlantic democracy promotion in its near abroad
Nelli Babayan
5. Spoiler or facilitator of democratization?: Russia’s role in Georgia and Ukraine
Laure Delcour and Kataryna Wolczuk
6. Undermining the transatlantic democracy agenda? The Arab Spring and Saudi Arabia’s counteracting democracy strategy
Oz Hassan
7. Local actors in the driver’s seat: Transatlantic democracy promotion under regime competition in the Arab world
Tina Freyburg and Solveig Richter
8. The noble west and the dirty rest? Western democracy promoters and illiberal regional powers
Tanja A. Börzel
Biography
Nelli Babayan is a Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC and Associate Fellow at the Center for Transnational Studies, Foreign and Security Policy, Freie Universität Berlin. She is the author of "Democratic Transformation and Obstruction: EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus" (2015).
Thomas Risse is Professor of International Relations at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. His latest publications include "A Community of Europeans? Transnational Identities and Public Spheres" (2010) and "European Public Spheres: Politics Is Back" (2014).
