Avrupa Birliği'nin Ukrayna'da demokrasi teşviki

This dissertation analyses the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion in Ukraine based on the assumptions that democratisation cannot be detached from international environment and domestic context is determinant of the success of external actors' democracy promotion policies. It applies Wolfgang Merkel's embedded democracy model which is composed of five partial regimes: electoral regime, political liberties, civil rights, horizontal accountability and effective power to govern. The dissertation adds civil society as the sixth one since Ukrainian civil society has proven itself as an influential actor in Ukraine's democratisation. This dissertation attempts to answer the following questions: What are tools, methods and models of the EU's democracy promotion policies in Ukraine? How does Ukraine's domestic context influence its orientation towards the EU and the EU's democracy promotion patterns? To what extent is the EU's democracy promotion effective in Ukraine's democratisation in the face of Russia's counterproductive policies? To answer these questions, the content analysis of relevant communications and reports from the EU institutions, policy frameworks, official documents on the bilateral relations and the EU's democracy promotion instruments is conducted. Ukraine's selection as a case study is based on the country's peculiarity as a crosspressured state between the EU and Russia. The contribution of the study derives from its search for the EU impact on each partial regime of the embedded democracy model by including the Ukrainian domestic context as an in-depth analysis as well as Russia's counter effects in the democratisation process. In this regard, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's conceptual and practical democracy promotion in Ukraine.