According to the theory of “democratic peace,” India, as the largest democracy in the world and as South Asia …’s predominant regional power, should be expected to promote democracy in neighboring countries. However, New Delhi lacks any … official democracypromotion policy, and its past record on democracy in the region is mixed at best. Against this background …

democracy. All this suggests the necessity of aban-doning the controversial aim of the “transformative impact” of political …

era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the …

, did not contribute to democratization nor to the stabilization of volatile political, military and economic structures … based on dubious concepts. Certainly, the impact of drug trafficking could endanger democratization and state-building if …

The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … differentiation theoretical point of view, the paper argues that the major impetus for democratization is rather given by “functional … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …

democracy and human rights violations in authoritarian regimes. However, some of the world’s most repressive authoritarian … sanction episodes instigated by Western democracies as an attempt to enhance democracy and human rights. In this paper, we … democracy in targeted authoritarian states. Using a new dataset on democratic sanctions between 1990 and 2010, time - series …

existing in the grey zone between democracy and autocracy. The paper finds that, while institutional path dependence has a …