Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS - 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 8 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES - 9 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS - 10 INTRODUCTION - 14 CH 1: RESEARCHING PARTY ASSISTANCE - 26 CH 2: PARTY ASSISTANCE AND NORM PROMOTION - 40 CH 3: THE CONTEXT OF PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE - 58 CH 4: POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE - 80 CH 5: POLITICAL PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE - 114 CH 6: THE FAILURE OF PARTY ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIA AND UKRAINE - 138 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS - 156 NOTES - 162 APPENDIX 1 - 168 APPENDIX 2 - 170 REFERENCES - 172 ABSTRACT - 201 SAMENVATTING - 202

About the Author

Max Bader is a doctoral candidate at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.