Either it offers these new and future post-Soviet democracies the prospect of membership in some form, which is what they and America would wish.
Even so, the Bush administration is not backing down from its support for post-Soviet democracies along Russia's border, including Ukraine and Georgia — a point that will be made clear to the Kremlin when the United States and Georgia sign a new charter formalizing a strategic relationship that includes provisions for deepening ties in economics, politics and security.
From Germany and Japan to the development of post-Soviet democracies, all have been aided by various degrees of assistance in institutional development and inclusion.
The model was largely curative in its focus with massive infrastructure costs that made it too 'inappropriate and inefficient' to meet the changing health needs of the population or the market economies of these emerging post-Soviet democracies (9, 12, 20– 20).
It seemed the Soviet flirtation with democracy was ending.
Slightly more than a decade after the departure of the last Soviet troops here, democracy is not an abstraction for Mongolia.
"After the Soviet Union fell, democracy expanded at an unprecedented rate," he says in the book's introduction.
AMONG ex-Soviet states, where democracy is mostly a fragile flower, Georgia seemed to be a welcome exception.
The relief is understandable: with Mr Yanukovych gone, Ukraine has a chance at last to ditch its ersatz, post-Soviet version of democracy for the genuine kind.
Though a bold line separates Soviet dictatorship and American democracy, people are much the same everywhere.
Twenty years after the Soviet collapse, challenges to democracy, free markets and the rule of law still abound.
