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

✍ Scribed by Sergiu Buscaneanu (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
The External Dimension of Democratisation....Pages 15-42
Theoretical Knowledge and Democratisation....Pages 43-81
EU Democracy Promotion....Pages 83-133
International Influences....Pages 135-164
Domestic Contexts....Pages 165-189
Synergetic Effects of Domestic, EU and International Factors....Pages 191-210
Conclusions....Pages 211-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-270

✦ Subjects

Democracy;European Politics;European Union Politics;Russian and Post-Soviet Politics;Regionalism;Comparative Politics