External democracy promotion in Ukraine

The role of the European Union

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7743687
AutoresIryna Solonenko (0009-0007-5373-3127, International Renaissance Foundation, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume16
Fascículo4
Páginas709-731
Data de publicação2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDemocratization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13510340903083851
OpenAlexW2091223838
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas23

The article explores the role of the European Union in promoting democracy in Ukraine over the past decade and a half. It looks at both European Union (EU) policy and domestic factors and draws on the relevant experience of the Central and East European countries and the EU's role in their political transformation. The article argues that the EU's impact on Ukraine's democratization has so far been limited due to both the policy of the EU and domestic factors in Ukraine. In the early 1990s the EU chose not to treat Ukraine as one of the Central and East European countries, which determined the subsequent choice of policy instruments and reinforced the ambiguity of Ukraine's orientation. The EU has also failed to make its policy values-based, and a Russia-first policy persisted for a long time. Weak conditionality and socialization are other elements that have characterized the EU's policy towards Ukraine. As far as domestic factors are concerned, political competition was rather weak in Ukraine prior to 2

Democracy · Democracy promotion · Democratization · Economics · European union · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess · Sociology · European Politics and Security · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics