CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Yaroshenko, Liubov Anatolyevna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Impact of the European Union upon Democratization in Ukraine |
| Summary | This research explores the effectiveness of EU democratization policies towards Ukraine. The time-frame covers the period from the signing-up of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Ukraine in June 1994 till February 2007, when the latest evaluation of the implementation of the ENP Action Plan for Ukraine was done. After the qualitative assessment of the content of EU democratization policies, I will argue that the EU strategic interests towards Ukraine always predetermined the character of democratic conditions and the size of the rewards suggested to Ukraine for the implementation of democratic reforms. The fact that the EU is not yet ready to integrate Ukraine into its institutions explains the vagueness of the democratic conditions and the mere scope of political incentives. Nevertheless, even providing precise and ‘negative’ democratic conditionality for Ukraine, the EU hardly intends to break the relationship and leave Ukraine out of the European orbit even if Ukraine violates democratic provisions. After the Orange revolution of December 2004, the shift in the political regime of the country proved that pro-democratic government can implement democratic reforms even under imprecise conditions from the side of EU. Still, integration incentives could have contributed to the stability of democratic initiatives of new Ukrainian government. |
| Supervisor | Meszerics Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/yaroshenko_liubov.pdf |
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