Democracy without Borders: Transnationalisation and Conditionality in New Democracies

by Grugel,Jean; Grugel,Jean

• ISBN13: 9780415192026
• ISBN10: 0415192021
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book carves out a new area of democratization studies by analyzing the transnational dimension and the role of non-state actors across three different geographical regions. Chapters utilize empirical data from Europe, Africa, Latin America.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Preface	xiii
PART I Theorizing transnational and non-state influences in democratization	1	(56)
Contextualizing democratization: the changing significance of transnational factors and non-state actors	3	(20)
Jean Grugel
International factors in processes of political democratization: towards a theoretical integration	23	(19)
Hans Peter Schmitz
Katrin Sell
European actors in global change: the role of European civil societies in democratization	42	(15)
Christian L Freres
PART II Case studies of transnational and non-state actors in East and Central Europe, Africa and Latin America	57	(100)
The European Union, democratic conditionality and transnational party linkages: The case of Eastern Europe	59	(17)
Geoffrey Pridham
Charting the decline of civil society: explaining the changing roles and conceptions of civil society in East and Central Europe	76	(16)
Petr Kopecky
Edward Barnfield
International policies to promote African democratization	92	(14)
ODA Van Cranenburgh
Military intervention as the transnationalization of democratization: the case of West Africa	106	(14)
Francois Prikic
European NGOs and democratization in Latin America: policy networks and transnational ethical networks	120	(18)
Jean Grugel
Market forces and moral imperatives: the professionalization of social activism in Latin America	138	(19)
Lucy Taylor
Conclusion: towards an understanding of transnational and non-state actors in global democratization	157	(8)
Jean Grugel
Bibliography	165	(18)
Index	183