| ID | 122820 |
| Title Proper | Geostrategic interest and democracy promotion |
| Other Title Information | evidence from post-Soviet space |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ioffe, Grigory |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | To become successful, the American policy of promoting democracy abroad needs to be scaled down and decoupled from geopolitics. In the post-Soviet world, the democracy-geopolitics doublespeak breeds cynicism and achieves mixed results at best. Particularly discouraging are the outcomes of democracy promotion in the so-called cleft countries, straddled by a cultural divide. In Ukraine, American foreign policy achieved some success at the price of intensifying inter-regional antagonisms, which subsequently compromised and offset the progress that had been achieved in democratic forms of governance. In Belarus, democracy promotion failed altogether because inter-regional antagonisms in that country are too modest and are therefore difficult to leverage. |
| `In' analytical Note | Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 65, No.7; Sep 2013: p.1255-1274 |
| Journal Source | Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 65, No.7; Sep 2013: p.1255-1274 |
| Key Words | Democracy ; America ; Geopolitics ; Post Soviet World ; Democracy Promotion ; Ukraine ; American Foreign Policy ; Belarus |