1st Edition

Democratic Transformation and Obstruction EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

By Nelli Babayan Copyright 2015
208 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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