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The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas

Laurence Whitehead

Abstract

The ending of the Cold War has brought about a flurry of regional initiatives to promote and consolidate democratization, especially in east Central Europe and in Central and South America. This volume provides a historically grounded analysis of the significance and limitations of such attempts at ‘democracy by convergence’, and reconsiders some established ideas about the relationship between domestic and international factors in recent democratization processes. Combining theoretical approaches with empirical case studies, the book examines the development of democratic regimes in countries ... More

Keywords: democratization

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9780199243754
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/0199243751.001.0001

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Laurence Whitehead, editor
Nuffield College, Oxford
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Abbreviations

Part I International Dimensions

chapter 1 Three International Dimensions of Democratization

Laurence Whitehead

2 The Influence of the International Context Upon the Choice of National Institutions and Policies in Neo‐Democracies

Philippe C. Schmitter

Part II The Americas

3 The Imposition of Democracy: The Caribbean

Laurence Whitehead

4 The Effectiveness of US Human Rights Policy, 1973–1980

Kathryn Sikkink

5 The Resurgence of United States Political Development Assistance to Latin America in the 1980s

Thomas Carothers

6 The International Dimensions of Democratization in Latin America: The Case of Brazil

Andrew Hurrell

7 International Support for the Chilean Opposition, 1973–1989: Political Parties and the Role of Exiles

Alan Angell

8 International Support for Democracy in Contemporary Latin America: The Role of the Party Internationals

Wolf Grabendorff

9 International Political Finance: The Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Latin America

Michael Pinto‐Duschinsky

Part III Europe

10 Democracy by Convergence: Southern Europe

Laurence Whitehead

11 International Aspects of Democratization: The Case of Spain

Charles Powell

12 Underwriting Democracy: The European Community and Greece

Basilios Tsingos

13 Democracy and Decolonization: East‐Central Europe

Laurence Whitehead

Part IV A Comparative Perspective

14 Democratic Regions, Ostracism, and Pariahs

Laurence Whitehead

Part V Five Years Later

15 The Enlargement of the European Union: A ‘Risky’ Form of Democracy Promotion

Laurence Whitehead

Postscript

Laurence Whitehead

End Matter

Bibliography

Index