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Book 2020n the other hand, is far more negative than the literature on democratization and autocracy promotion typically suggests. It negatively affects both the quality of democracy of post-Soviet states and limits the EU‘s options for promoting democracy in its neighborhood..

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Introduction,ng trends of democratic development. Armenia, Belarus and Azerbaijan are characterized by most democracy indices as . or . states, whereas Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are considered as . or .. Moreover, whereas Georgia and Ukraine have experienced numerous democratic breakthroughs, such as the 2003

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State of the art,. After a brief overview of the research puzzle presented by this thesis, two strands of literature that appear to be predominant in the research on the former Soviet Union, will be discussed in great detail: literature on Europeanization and the emerging studies on authoritarian resistance with a f

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Institutionalist theoretical framework,ent variables: degree of democracy and nature of regime outcomes, which stem from transitologist studies on the relative nature of regime types and the institutionalist understandings of the concept of democracy and its components. Then, I employ the models of Rational Choice Institutionalism and So

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Measuring the external leverage in the post-Soviet states,oviet states under study. Following the analytical framework described in the chapter on research design, I start by measuring of the amount of leverage the EU and Russia have enjoyed over the post-Soviet states. Overall, the empirical analysis confirms the hypothesis of the thesis about the suppose

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European and Russian strategies in the post-Soviet space, their shared neighborhood. We can observe contrasting trends. Empirical results show that Russia has consistently viewed the region as a zone of privileged interests and has aimed to establish political and economic control over its neighbors. In contrast to Russia, the EU seems to be looking at th

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