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Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

Although democracy promotion has become a popular term for policy makers and scholars, democratization is rarely a smooth or linear transition. While some countries quickly democratize, others lag behind despite a long period of democracy promotion activities. Furthermore, while democracy promotion itself has been widely studied, there is a paucity of literature available assessing the outcome or the impact of democracy promotion.

This book investigates democracy promotion by the European Union and the United States of America, and seeks to uncover why intensive democracy promotion has resulted in limited democratic progress. Exploring case studies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, this book examines the conditions in which democracy promotion is more likely to result in democratic transformation. In addition, it introduces the concept of the democracy blocker, a powerful authoritarian regional actor that is capable of blocking democratization in other countries.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Science, Democracy, Democratization, EU Studies, US Politics, Comparative Politics, and Foreign Policy.

Nelli Babayan is a Senior Researcher in the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany.

Democratization Studies
(Formerly Democratization Studies, Frank Cass)

Democratization Studies combines theoretical and comparative studies with detailed analysis of issues central to democratic progress and its performance, all over the world.

The books in this series aim to encourage debate on the many aspects of democratization that are of interest to policy makers, administrators, journalists, and aid and development personnel, as well as to all those involved in education.

1 Democratization and the Media

Edited by Vicky Randall

2 The Resilience of Democracy

Persistent practice, durable idea

Edited by Peter Burnell and Peter Calvert

3 The Internet, Democracy and Democratization

Edited by Peter Ferdinand

4 Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-communist Europe

Edited by Paul Lewis

5 Democracy Assistance

International co-operation for democratization

Edited by Peter Burnell

6 Opposition and Democracy in South Africa

Edited by Roger Southall

7 The European Union and Democracy Promotion

The case of North Africa

Edited by Richard Gillespie and Richard Youngs

8 Democratization and the Judiciary

Edited by Siri Gloppen, Roberto Gargarella and Elin Skaar

9 Civil Society in Democratization

Edited by Peter Burnell and Peter Calvert

10 The Internet and Politics

Citizens, voters and activists

Edited by Sarah Oates, Diana Owen and Rachel Gibson

11 Democratization in the Muslim World

Changing patterns of authority and power

Edited by Frederic Volpi and Francesco Cavatorta

12 Global Democracy: For and Against

Ethical theory, institutional design and social struggles

Raffaele Marchetti

13 Constructing Democracy in Southern Europe

A comparative analysis of Italy, Spain and Turkey

Lauren M. McLaren

14 The Consolidation of Democracy

Comparing Europe and Latin America

Carsten Q. Schneider

15 New Challenges to Democratization

Edited by Peter Burnell and Richard Youngs

16 Multiple Democracies In Europe

Political culture in new member states

Paul Blokker

17 Globality, Democracy and Civil Society

Edited by Terrell Carver and Jens Bartelson

18 Democracy Promotion and Conflict-based Reconstruction

The United States and democratic consolidation in Bosnia and Afghanistan

Matthew Alan Hill

19 Requisites of Democracy

Conceptualization, measurement, and explanation

Jrgen Mller and Svend-Erik Skaaning

20 The Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion

Edited by Christopher Hobson and Milja Kurki

21 Ethnic Politics and Democratic Transition in Rwanda

David Kiwuwa

22 Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective

Conceptions, conjunctures, causes and consequences

Jrgen Mller and Svend-Erik Skaaning

23 The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion

Jonas Wolff, Hans-Joachim Spanger and Hans-Jrgen Puhle

24 Democratization and Ethnic Minorities

Conflict or compromise?

Edited by Jacques Bertrand and Oded Haklai

25 Democratic Transitions

Modes and outcomes

Sujian Guo and Gary A. Stradiotto

26 Political Leadership, Nascent Statehood and Democracy

A comparative study

Ulrika Mller and Isabell Schierenbeck

27 Democracy, Participation and Contestation

Civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy

Edited by Emmanuelle Avril and Johann Neem

28 Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

Nelli Babayan

29 Politics and Democracy in Microstates

Wouter Veenendaal

Democratic Transformation and Obstruction

EU, US, and Russia in the South Caucasus

Nelli Babayan

First published 2015

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2015 Nelli Babayan

The right of Nelli Babayan to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Babayan, Nelli.

Democratic transformation and obstruction : EU, US and Russia in the South Caucasus / Nelli Babayan.

pages cm. (Democratization studies ; 28)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. DemocratizationGovernment policyUnited States. 2. DemocratizationGovernment policyEuropean Union countries. 3. DemocracyArmenia (Republic) 4. DemocracyAzerbaijan. 5. DemocracyGeorgia (Republic) 6. New democraciesCaucasus, South. 7. United StatesForeign relations1989 8. European Union countriesForeign relations. 9. Russia (Federation)Foreign relations.

I. Title.

JZ1480.B29 2014

320.9475dc23

2014010146

ISBN: 978-0-415-74866-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-79646-8 (ebk)

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