A Research on the international and domestic factors of democratization in the post-Soviet States : Ukraine and Belarus in comparison

• Main Authors: Chung-ChiKuang, 況正吉
• Other Authors: Jenn-Jaw Soong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gehe38

博士 === 國立成功大學 === 政治經濟研究所 === 104 === After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the Eurasian space appeared many integration organizations, such as Commonwealth of Independence States, Collective Security Treaty Organizations, Eurasian Economic Community . But the position of the Member States haves serious differences, integration has been slow. CIS countries, within the traditional sphere of influence and serving as a natural buffer zone of Russia, are of great significance to the Russian regional security, stability and economic development. However, Western powers led by the United States and the European Union, keep making efforts to differentiate the CIS countries through campaigns such as “ Color Revolution” and “Eastern Partnership Program”, in order to squeeze Russia's strategic space. The explanation of “democracy” and “democratization” is a significant field in the study of political science. Generally speaking, before the 1990s, the study of democratization was largely focused on the domestic factors, while, after the 1990s, scholars began to emphasize the functions of international factors in the democratic transition process. Using the connection of the domestic and international politics in fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union states, this study intends to adopt case-studies to stress the functions of “international-domestic factors” during the democratic transition process. It’s discovered in this study : countries that have adopted the integration with the European Union as their foreign policies have presented the better of democratic score in the pattern of premier-presidential system.” On the contrary, the former Soviet Union states that have adopted the integration with Eurasian Economic Union have presented the worse of democratic score in the pattern of “presidential-parliamentary system.”