AUTOCRATIC AND DEMOCRATIC EXTERNAL INFLUENCES IN POST-SOVIET EURASIA
Bringing together an impressive and diverse range of scholars, this book helps explain the great divergence in outcomes of regime transition in the post-Soviet states of Eurasia. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the works focus on external factors includes original analysis of the multiple types of interactions between the states themselves, exposing the continuing powerful contradictory dynamics of democratizing and authoritarian impulses combined with opposed pressures for integration and separation, which in the case of Ukraine came to threaten the whole structure of European international politics.
Richard Sakwa, University of Kent, UK
Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia is one of the very first studies that systematically explores how the European Union, Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union support democratic or autocratic forces in post-Soviet countries. The various contributions forcefully demonstrate how governmental and non-governmental actors can contribute to diverging processes of democratic change and autocratic stabilization at the supranational, national and subnational level.
Tanja A. Brzel, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany
This book makes an important contribution to the literature because it is among the first to provide a wide-ranging understanding of how international factors influence regime development, whether in democratic or autocratic directions. Moreover, it is path-breaking in its focus on the role that subnational governments play in the broader process of national regime evolution.
Robert Orttung, The George Washington University, USA
This book offers a pioneering and fascinating contribution to our understanding of external influences on the transition of post-Soviet Eurasian states. With theoretical insights and carefully researched chapter studies it expands on the democratization literature in particular by examining the important and topical phenomenon of autocracy promotion at both national and sub-national levels.
Roy Allison, University of Oxford, UK
Post-Soviet Politics
Series Editor: Neil Robinson, University of Limerick, Ireland
The last decade has seen rapid and fundamental change in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although there has been considerable academic comment on these changes over the years, detailed empirical and theoretical research on the transformation of the post-Soviet space is only just beginning to appear as new paradigms are developed to explain change.
Post-Soviet Politics is a series focusing on the politics of change in the states of the former USSR. The series publishes original work that blends theoretical development with empirical research on post-Soviet politics. The series includes work that progresses comparative analysis of post-Soviet politics, as well as case study research on political change in individual post-Soviet states. The series features original research monographs, thematically strong edited collections and specialized texts.
Uniquely, this series brings together the complete spectrum of work on post-Soviet politics, providing a voice for academics world wide.
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Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Edited by
ANASTASSIA OBYDENKOVA
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
ALEXANDER LIBMAN
German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP, Germany
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Autocratic and democratic external influences in post-Soviet Eurasia / by Anastassia Obydenkova and Alexander Libman.
pages cm. -- (Post-Soviet politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-4124-9 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-6849-2 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-7685-5 (epub) 1. Non-governmental organizations--Eurasia. 2. International agencies--Eurasia. 3. Democratization--Eurasia. 4. Dictatorship--Eurasia. 5. Regime change--Eurasia. 6. Post-communism--Eurasia. I. Libman, Alexander. II. Title.
JZ4841.O28 2015
341.2095--dc23
2014041035
ISBN 9781472441249 (hbk)
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Contents
Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova
Anastassia Obydenkova and Alexander Libman
Ekaterina Turkina
Maria Bigday and Yauheni Kryzhanouski
Tom Casier
Jakob Tolstrup
Alexander Libman
Ekaterina Furman
Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova
List of Figures and Tables
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Notes on Contributors
Maria Bigday and Yauheni Kryzhanouski are PhD students at the CNRS-University of Strasbourg research unit Societies, Actors and Government in Europe (SAGE, UMR 7363). Maria studies intellectual engagement in authoritarianism using the example of Belarusian non-state policy research. Yauheni lectures at the European Humanities University in Vilnius on globalization and European policy and is finalizing his PhD thesis on Protest Rock in Belarus: Logics of Politicisation and Modes of Protest.
