The EU routinely asserts that the promotion of democracy and human rights is central to its international identity … respond effectively to the emergence of a vastly more challenging environment for democracy promotion. This paper reveals … serious limits across three strands of democracy policy - the magnitude of incentives offered in return for democratic change …

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 …

democracy. This research as part of my on-going PhD program questions the traditional approach of the democratic diffusion based … alternative view of the democracy: configurational, dynamic and interpretative. The democracy isn’t just an outcome of a list of … international, levels. The European integration may contribute toward more or less democracy only when the dialogues constructed …