Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law American and European Strategies [Paperback]

European and American experts systematically compare U.S. and EU strategies to promote democracy around the world  from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and Southeast Asia. In doing so, the authors debunk the pernicious myth that there exists a transatlantic divide over democracy promotion.Foreword; R.Morningstar Introduction: American and European Strategies to Promote Democracy; A.Magen & M.A.McFaul Venus Approaching Mars? The EU's Approaches to Democracy Promotion in Comparative Perspective; T.A.B?rzel & T.Risse Governance and Foreign Assistance; D.M.Girod, S.D.Krasner & K.Stoner Weiss Europe, the United States, and Middle Eastern Democracy; R.Youngs & T.Cofman Wittes Comparing EU and US Democracy: Promotion in the Mediterranean and the Newly Independent States; V.van H?llen & A.Stahn Democracy or Stability? EU and US Engagement in the Southern Caucasus; T.A.B?rzel, Y.Pamuk & A.Stahn Latin America is Different: Transatlantic Discord on How to Promote Democracy in 'Problematic' Countries; S.Gratius & T.Legler U.S. and EU Strategies to Promote Democracy in Indonesia; R.Kleinfeld Conclusions: Towards Transatlantic Democracy Promotion?; T.Risse

This fine collection of European and American scholars has a particular relevance against the background of the democratization movements in the Arab Middle East (the so-called Arab Spring ). In spite of the stereotypes in the IR literature, according to which Americans are from Mars, and Europeans from Venus the authors in this book argue convincingly that Europe and America share a high degree of normative consensus and convergence, both in strategies and in their goals, regarding the promotion of democracy in several regions of the Third World and the post-Soviet sphere. - Arie M. Kacowicz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The Arab Spring reminds us once again how important processes of democratization (succelC¥