US democracy assistance programs in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution

被引：4
作者：
Zielys, Povilas [1 ]
Rudinskaite, Ruta [1 ]
机构：
[1] Vilnius State Univ, Inst Int Relat & Polit Sci, LT-01130 Vilnius, Lithuania
来源：
COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST STUDIES | 2014年 / 47卷 / 01期
关键词：
Democratization; Democracy assistance; United States; Ukraine; Orange Revolution; PROMOTION; DEMOCRATIZATION;
D O I：
10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.01.006
中图分类号：
D81 [国际关系];
学科分类号：
030207 ;
摘要：
The 2004 Orange Revolution failed to skyrocket Ukraine into the ranks of consolidated democracies. Some previous research claimed that, in the similar case of post-Rose Revolution Georgia, its vague democratic perspectives can be explained by, among others, a negative impact of politically biased US democracy assistance programs. This article examines five groups of US programs (electoral aid, political party development, legislative strengthening, NGO development and media strengthening) implemented in Ukraine in 2005-2010, and concludes that US diplomatic support for the pro-Western "Orange" leadership did not translate into political bias of US-funded democracy assistance programs. (C) 2014 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：81 / 91
页数：11
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