CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Turcu, Cristina |
|---|---|
| Title | The Impact of US Educational Programs on the Post-Communist Democratization Process In the Republic of Moldova Compared with Armenia |
| Summary | This paper is a comparison which analyzes the effectiveness of the US democracy consolidation through the prism of educational programs implemented in the Republic of Moldova and in Armenia after the collapse of the communist regime. For the process of democratization in Armenia I refer to the thesis of Liana Mikayelyan, a CEU student from the Political Science Department, who wrote her thesis on the topic “The Impact of US Government Funded Organizations on Educational Development in Armenia” two years ago. We both refer to the literature of democracy promotion and process of democratization, to the so-called “transitional literature”. I also compare the educational institutional arrangements of this strategy of US foreign policy in Moldova and Armenia. My thesis examines the graduate, undergraduate, and high-school programs and argues that the knowledge of Moldavians gained during the studies in US educational institutions later contributes to the democratization of their country. The thesis on Armenia analyzes graduate programs which are aimed to help Armenians to obtain Western education. At the same time I analyze the educational and exchange programs in Moldova for the professional level, sponsored by the US Government and performed by various structures of the US State Department and by American international NGOs. In both countries, in the majority of cases, graduates do not return to their homeland, and even if they do, they are employed by international organizations, rather than local institutions. Through conducting an interview-based research with the alumni of some American educational programs, my paper examines if their career choices correspond to the purposes of these programs and compares them with the Armenian case. |
| Supervisor | Tamas Meszerics |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/turcu_cristina.pdf |
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