Bulletin n. 2/2007
October 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Warkotsch Alexander
    Internationale Institutionen als Sozialisationsinstanzen? Die Europäische Union im postsowjetischen Raum
    in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft , 17. Jahrgang (2007), Heft 2 ,  2007 ,  333-356
    International Institutions as Agents of Socialization? The European Union in the Post-Soviet Space The article draws on two generic social mechanisms – strategic calculation and normative suasion – to explain the limits of international socialization to liberal human rights and democracy norms in the post-Soviet space. In doing so, it examines the socializing role of the European Union in Belarus and Uzbekistan. It is argued that the EU’s inability to provide tangible material incentives as well as the target states’ autochthon culture and institutions impede successful socialization dynamics. Recommendations to increase Europe’s leverage on the region concentrate on a better understanding of the incumbent elites’ cost-benefit assessment as well as a more responsive attitude towards traditional institutions in the EU’s democratization policy.
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