Promoting Democracy in the Post-Soviet Region (Studies in Political Studies, 4)

Reveron, Derek S.

ISBN 10: 0773471480 / ISBN 13: 9780773471481

Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002

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***2002 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 037071

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Titel: Promoting Democracy in the Post-Soviet ...

Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2002

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe:

Drawing on his background with the US Agency for International Development and the US State Department, Reveron explores why promoting democracy in former socialist countries of eastern Europe became an important component of US foreign policy, and how it was carried out by the State Department's Community Connections program. He discusses overlooked aspects of the policy process, implementing and continuing the policies, keeping everyone happy, and democracy as a new institutional mission. The study seems to have been a doctoral dissertation for the University of Chicago. It is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reseña del editor:

An examination of the differences between the two main US laws that fund democratization activities in the post-Soviet regions. Analysis of the programme funded by the Freedom Support Act reveals the extent to which the State Department relies on private organizations to implement democratization programmes, and suggests that democratization programmes provide financial benefits primarily to American organizations. Then, with a combined issue network/statist argument, this study explains that an issue network, organized by the State Department to give the foreign policy community an active mission in the post-Cold War environment, was the impetus behind the creation of programmes like Community Connections. Because Community Connections has never faced financial or political scandal, and taps into an American priority of spreading democracy and capitalism, evaluation of CC was irrelevant to programme expansion and continuation.