Comparative Politics

Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies

2009
Author(s)

Amichai Magen, Thomas Risse, Michael A. McFaul

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies

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.