External Support for Democratization in Latin America: European Political Parties and the Southern Cone

Abstract

This article is part of a larger project on European and US support for democratization in Latín America coordinated by Christian Freres and Alberto Van Klaveren of AIETI, Spain. I would like to acknowledge the assistance of AIETI and CICYT in carrying out research on aspects of European support for Latín American democratization, and to thank Christian Freres for discussing some of the ideas in this article with me. 1 would also like to thank those people who gave me interviews for the project, especially Donato Di Santo of the PDS in Rome.