TY - BOOK ID - 78642655 TI - 'From Solidarity to Geopolitics' : support for democracy among Postcommunist states PY - 2014 SN - 1316056759 1316054381 131608275X 1316075656 1316080390 1107279283 1107699754 131607093X 1316078035 1316073297 9781316075654 9781316073292 9781107279285 9781107049987 1107049989 9781107699755 9781316078037 1322176914 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Democratization KW - New democracies KW - Post-communism KW - Countries, Newly democratic KW - Democracies, New KW - Democratic states, New KW - Emerging democracies KW - Nations, Newly democratic KW - New democratic states KW - Newly democratic states KW - States, Newly democratic KW - Democracy KW - Newly independent states KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - Political science KW - Government policy KW - European Union KW - E.U. KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Politics and government KW - Europe, Eastern. KW - Government KW - International. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78642655 AB - This book theorizes a mechanism underlying regime-change waves, the deliberate efforts of diffusion entrepreneurs to spread a particular regime and regime-change model across state borders. Why do only certain states and non-state actors emerge as such entrepreneurs? Why, how, and how effectively do they support regime change abroad? To answer these questions, the book studies the entrepreneurs behind the third wave of democratization, with a focus on the new eastern European democracies - members of the European Union. The study finds that it is not the strongest democracies nor the democracies trying to ensure their survival in a neighborhood of non-democracies that become the most active diffusion entrepreneurs. It is, instead, the countries where the organizers of the domestic democratic transitions build strong solidarity movements supporting the spread of democracy abroad that do. The book also draws parallels between their activism abroad and their experiences with democratization and democracy assistance at home. ER -