Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central …. Arguably, democratization should not be a precondition for cooperation as in European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) but rather be … promoted by sweeping economic cooperation incentives. -- Central Asia ; China ; Russia ; Governance ; Regional Integration …

In the years since the demise of the Soviet Union, the process of democratization never started or, if it did, stalled … devoted to the impact of transnational and international actors and forces on the democratization of the non-Soviet post …-incomplete processes of democratization in most of the non-Baltic post-Soviet countries. In particular, little attention has been devoted …

in Europe, the first efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the uncertainties that surrounded the shaping of a new … international economic order with the United States at its core. Europe, the Marshall Plan, and the Post-War International Order is … the scenes view of the American rationale for an economically rebuilt and integrated Europe, written by someone who would …