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Beetz´ empirical analysis offers in-depth information on the EC´s and the UNDP´s external democracy approaches in light of international organizations being so far underrepresented in external democracy promotion research. Her detailed and well researched analysis of the EC and the UNDP in Rwanda allows for insights in the conceptual diversity of the international organizations´ external democratization approaches that have been so far been neglected.
Rezension von Nora Berger-Kern, 28.11.2017

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This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted democracy in Rwanda from 2003 until 2013. As a result, the author outlines how democracy strategies differ; she defines variance factors in impact, and develops a new concept of variances.

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Simone Beetz is a researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

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