Socializing Democratic Norms: The Role of International Organizations for the Construction of Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Socialization and Democratization: a Tenuous but Intriguing Link....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The ‘International’ in Democratization: Norms and the Middle Ground....Pages 23-42
Complex Socialization and the Transfer of Democratic Norms....Pages 43-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
The UN, Democracy and Europe since 1945....Pages 65-84
NATO and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security Communities....Pages 85-105
The EU: Promoting Liberal-Democracy through Membership Conditionality....Pages 106-126
The OSCE: the Somewhat Different Socializing Agency....Pages 127-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
The Czech Republic: from Socialist Past to Socialized Future....Pages 149-168
From Isolation to Integration: Internal and External Factors of Democratic Change in Slovakia....Pages 169-189
The Socialization of Democratic Norms in Russia: Is the Glass Half-empty or Half-full?....Pages 190-208
Belarus: an Authoritarian Exception from the Model of Post-Communist Democratic Transition?....Pages 209-231
Turkey and the Eternal Question of Being, or Becoming, European....Pages 232-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-279