Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989 - Softcover

Thiel, Rainer

 
9783531177694: Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3531177699 ISBN 13: 9783531177694
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989

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About the Author

Dr. Rainer Thiel received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and is currently a Research Consultant at empirica Communication and Technology Research in Bonn.

From the Back Cover

Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion develops a game theoretic model that explains how an external actor influences the strategic interaction between an authoritarian regime and a democratic opposition. In a multiple arena approach, the confrontation between regime and opposition on the domestic level is nested inside a game on the international level, at which the regime is simultaneously entangled with a democracy promotion actor. As a case study, the book formally reconstructs how United States democracy assistance influenced the Polish liberalization process between 1980 and 1989. The process tracing of its causal mechanisms is extensive and builds on data previously not recorded. With regard to Cold War history, new light is brought into U.S. American policies and strategies behind the Iron Curtain.

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Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3531177699
ISBN 13 
9783531177694
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
318