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Bunce, V., McFaul, M., Stoner-Weiss, K., (eds.), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World , (Cambridge: 2010: Cambridge University Press). ISBN: 978-0-521-13308-1 (paperback), 978-0-521-11598-8 (hardback).

Bunce, V., McFaul, M., Stoner-Weiss, K., (eds.), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the... This volume is an effort to summarize and draw to an at least provisional conclusion a still ongoing debate over the process of democratization in the post-Communist world. Indeed, the editors’ task is not only to provide a useful state-of-the-art account of the question, but also to advance some interpretative proposals for the variegated yet still similar regime changes that have taken place in the Eurasian space since 1989. The essays are either focused on singular cases or dedicated to wider common dynamics, and are all conceived in a comparative perspective, as contributions to a polyphonic fresco of the democratization processes of the last two decades. The scientific premises of this study draw on the vast literature on the ‘third wave’ of democratization, but two more characteristics, which constitute a great difference from the events that began in 1974, are stressed from the start. The first is that, since 1989, the European Union (EU) —then still the European Economic Community—and the US significantly increased their active initiatives in the promotion of democratization, because the end of the bipolar world nearly excluded the possibility that a regime change could end up strengthening a hostile international power. Secondly, the battle http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Europe Brill

Bunce, V., McFaul, M., Stoner-Weiss, K., (eds.), Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World , (Cambridge: 2010: Cambridge University Press). ISBN: 978-0-521-13308-1 (paperback), 978-0-521-11598-8 (hardback).

Southeastern Europe , Volume 36 (2): 273 – Jan 1, 2012

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Brill
Copyright
© 2012 by Koninklijke Brill N.V., Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0094-4467
eISSN
1876-3332
DOI
10.1163/187633312X642167
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This volume is an effort to summarize and draw to an at least provisional conclusion a still ongoing debate over the process of democratization in the post-Communist world. Indeed, the editors’ task is not only to provide a useful state-of-the-art account of the question, but also to advance some interpretative proposals for the variegated yet still similar regime changes that have taken place in the Eurasian space since 1989. The essays are either focused on singular cases or dedicated to wider common dynamics, and are all conceived in a comparative perspective, as contributions to a polyphonic fresco of the democratization processes of the last two decades. The scientific premises of this study draw on the vast literature on the ‘third wave’ of democratization, but two more characteristics, which constitute a great difference from the events that began in 1974, are stressed from the start. The first is that, since 1989, the European Union (EU) —then still the European Economic Community—and the US significantly increased their active initiatives in the promotion of democratization, because the end of the bipolar world nearly excluded the possibility that a regime change could end up strengthening a hostile international power. Secondly, the battle

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