External State-Building and Why Norms Matter: The European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus

Tanja A. Börzel; Vera van Hüllen

doi:10.17169/refubium-22646

External State-Building and Why Norms Matter: The European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus

Titel in Übersetzung: Externer Staatsaufbau und warum Normen wichtig sind: Der Kampf der Europäischen Union gegen Korruption im Südkaukasus

Tanja A. Börzel
, Vera van Hüllen

Freie Universität Berlin

Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere

Abstract

In dieser Ausgabe wird untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen die Bemühungen externer Akteure zum Staatsaufbau (state-building) in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit effektiv sind. Wir argumentieren, dass die Legitimität der extern geförderten Norm unter lokalen Akteuren wesentlich für den erfolgreichen Aufbau von Staatskapazitäten ist. Internationale Normen müssen anschlussfähig sein an dominante innerstaatliche Diskurse über politische Reformen. Empirisch untersuchen wir die Anti-Korruptions-Programme der Europäischen Union (EU) und ihre Implementation in einer der korruptesten Regionen der Welt, dem Südkaukasus. Wir zeigen, dass Legitimität erklären kann, warum die Bemühungen der EU in Georgien zur Verringerung von Korruption beigetragen haben, nicht aber in Armenien. In beiden Ländern konnten politische Eliten die Anti-Korruptions-Programme selektiv als Instrument gegen politische Gegner nutzen und mit Hilfe vergrößerter Staatskapazitäten das Regime stabilisieren. Allerdings wurde nur in Georgien die Korruptionsbekämpfung durch eine dauerhafte innerstaatliche Mobilisierung unterstützt, die zusätzlichen Druck auf politische Eliten zur effektiven Umsetzung institutioneller Reformen aufbaute.

Titel in Übersetzung	Externer Staatsaufbau und warum Normen wichtig sind: Der Kampf der Europäischen Union gegen Korruption im Südkaukasus
Originalsprache	Englisch
Erscheinungsort	Berlin
Verlag	Freie Universität Berlin, DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700
Seitenumfang	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-22646
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 04.2014

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External State-Building and Why Norms Matter: The European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus. / Börzel, Tanja A.; van Hüllen, Vera.
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700, 2014. (SFB-Governance Working Paper Series; Nr. 59).

Publikation: Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere und Berichte › Arbeits- oder Diskussionspapiere

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