Democracy promotion and the challenges of illiberal regional powers: introduction to the special issue

Democratization

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 381-399

  Risse, Thomas ^a   Babayan, Nelli ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

autocracy; China; democracy promotion; EU; regional power; Russia; Saudi Arabia; US

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930572526     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.997716     Document Type: Article

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