Engineering Revolution: The Paradox of Democracy Promotion in Serbia

✍ Scribed by Marlene Spoerri

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing from declassified CIA documents, personal interviews, and internal NGO documents, Engineering Revolution uncovers the true extent of the West's involvement in the overthrow of Balkan dictator Slobodan Milošević—finding that Western governments often hurt, rather than helped, Serbia's tenuous transition to democracy.

Drawing from declassified CIA documents, personal interviews, and internal NGO documents, Engineering Revolution uncovers the true extent of the West's involvement in the overthrow of Balkan dictator Slobodan Milošević—finding that Western governments often hurt, rather than helped, Serbia's tenuous transition to democracy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Promoting Democracy and Aiding Political Parties Abroad
2. The Absence of Aid in Milošević’s Serbia, 1990–1996
3. Preparing for Regime Change, 1997–2000
4. Democracy Promotion in Milošević’s Shadow, 2001–2012
5. Rethinking Aid’s Legacy in Serbia
Appendix. List of Interviewees
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments