Socializing Democratic Norms

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Socialization and Democratization - A Tenuous but Intriguing Link; T.Flockhart PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS The 'International' in Democratization: Norms and the Middle Ground; J.Grugel Complex Socialisation and the Transfer of Democratic Norms; T.Flockhart PART II: PROMOTING IDEAS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The UN, Democracy and Europe since 1945; S.Morphet NATO and the European System of Liberal-Democratic Security Communities; S.Lucarelli The EU: Promoting Liberal-Democracy through Membership Conditionality; F.Schimmelfennig The OSCE: The Somewhat Different Socializing Agency; M.Merlingen & R.Ostrauskaite PART III: RECEIVING AND INTERNALISING IDEAS IN TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES The Czech Republic: From Socialist Past to Socialized Future; P.Drulák & L. Königová From Isolation to Integration: Internal and External Factors of Democratic Change in Slovakia; M.Rybar The Socialization of Democratic Norms in Russia: Is the Glass Half-empty or Half-full?; M.Skak Belarus: An Authoritarian Exception from the Model of Post-Communist Democratic Transition?; E.Korosteleva & C.Rontoyanni Turkey and the Eternal Question of Being, or Becoming, European; B.Park Bibliography Subject Index Author Index