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Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion

The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989

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  1. Rainer Thiel
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-16
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  2. Regime Transitions and External Democracy Promotion

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 17-34

  3. The International Dimension of Regime Change

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 35-61

  4. Strategic Transitions

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 63-89

  5. Nested Games of External Influence on Strategic Regime Transition

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 91-160

  6. Methodology

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 161-178

  7. U.S. Democracy Assistance in the Polish Liberalization Process, 1980-1989

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 179-235

  8. Correspondence between Theory and Facts

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 237-263

  9. Conclusion

    • Rainer Thiel
    Pages 265-280

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 281-318
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About this book

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.

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion

  • Book Subtitle: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989

  • Authors: Rainer Thiel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92606-3

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-17769-4Published: 28 September 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-92606-3Published: 10 October 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 318

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science, International Relations

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