Eastern Europe: The International Context

Issue Date April 2000
Volume 11
Issue 2
Page Numbers 115-129
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Nowhere else has the impact of international factors on democratization been as apparent as in Central and Eastern Europe. Integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures is one particularly strong democratizing force. 

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