Promoting Democracy and Promoting Authoritarianism: Comparing the Cases of Belarus and Slovakia

Rachel Vanderhill

Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, vol. 66, issue 2, 255-283

Abstract: Although scholars have made great progress over the last few years studying the international dimension of democratisation, questions remain about this complex relationship, especially about the understudied area of external promotion of authoritarianism. This article seeks to develop more refined understanding of specific mechanisms linking one type of external involvement, financial assistance, to regime change. Financial assistance can increase the capabilities of either pro-democratic or pro-authoritarian elites and therefore contribute to regime change. These mechanisms are examined by looking at democracy assistance in Slovakia and Belarus and Russia's support for authoritarianism in Belarus.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.882621

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