External democracy promotion in Ukraine
The role of the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7743687 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iryna Solonenko (0009-0007-5373-3127, International Renaissance Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 709-731 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510340903083851 |
| OpenAlex | W2091223838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 23 |
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
EU enlargement in wartime Europe
Dancing with the devil
Introduction
European Identity Making and Identity Transfer
The EU's Support for Democratic Governance in the Eastern Neighbourhood
The Evolution of the Foreign Policy of Ukraine
Wartime EU
Cross-dimensional network of democracy promotion
The interplay of domestic contexts and external democracy promotion
Who, if not us
Reforms in the judiciary of Ukraine
The contestation of international ties and regime transitions
Linkages and the promotion of democracy
International assistance to democratic reform in Ukraine
Effectiveness of EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood through the lens of foreign policy analysis
US democracy assistance programs in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution
Ukrainian foreign policy from independence to inertia
Problems of political transition in Ukraine
Why Europe will run the 21st century
Europe Undivided
Designing Democracy
The Enlargement of the European Union and Nato
Europe as Empire
Politics in Time
Social Theory of International Politics
Elections, Parties and Representation in Post-Communist Europe
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
The European Union's Democratic Conditionality and Domestic Politics in Slovakia
Ukraine Imports Democracy
The Politics of Inclusion
The Many Faces of Europeanization
The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe
Governance by conditionality
Winners Take All
Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution
European Union Conditionality and the Acquis Communautaire
International Actors on the Domestic Scene
Democracy promotion before and after the ‘colour revolutions
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |