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

Thiel, Rainer

ISBN 10: 3531177699 / ISBN 13: 9783531177694

Published by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nested Games of External Democracy Promotion: The United States and the Polish Liberalization 1980-1989
• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3531177699
• ISBN 13: 9783531177694
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.