Geostrategic Interest and Democracy Promotion: Evidence from Post-Soviet Space

Grigory Ioffe

Europe-Asia Studies, 2013, vol. 65, issue 7, 1255-1274

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2013.822696

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