The noble west and the dirty rest? Western democracy promoters and illiberal regional powers

Democratization

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 519-535

  Börzel, Tanja A ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930575143     PISSN: 13510347     EISSN: 1743890X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2014.1000312     Document Type: Article

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