DEMOCRACY - A DESTINYOF HUMANKIND? A QUALIFIED,CONTINGENT AND CONTEXTUAL CASEFOR DEMOCRACY PROMOTION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALIZATION AND SPREAD OF FREE MARKETSAND DEMOCRACY -- A WITTGENSTEINIAN FAMILY PORTRAITOF DEMOCRACY -- DEMOCRACY'S DIALECTICAL CONTRADICTIONS -- I. DEMOCRACY AND MARKET ECONOMY -- II DEMOCRACY AND LIBERALISM -- III. DEMOCRACY AND NATIONALISM -- DEMOCRACY, THE RISE OF SEPARATISTMOVEMENTS AND PROBLEMS OF SECESSION -- ON THE INSTRUMENTAL AND INTRINSIC VALUEOF DEMOCRACY -- ON THE ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE UNIVERSALITYOF THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY -- ON IDEALISM, HYPOCRISY AND PRAGMATISMIN THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY -- WEAKNESSES OF DOMESTIC DEMOCRATICPOTENTIAL AND EXTERNAL SUPPORT -- THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONSIN PROMOTING DEMOCRACY -- I. THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY -- II. THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY -- III. THE OSCE AND THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY -- ON NATURAL AND UNNATURALAUTHORITARIANISMS -- DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE J CURVE: CENTRALASIAN EXPERIENCE -- RUSSIA'S CASE: FROM YELTSIN'S 'DEMOCRACY'TO PUTIN'S 'AUTHORITARIANISM' -- MISSIONS CIVILICATRICE IN GREAT GAMESOF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS -- PROMOTING DEMOCRACY WITHOUT STARTINGA NEW COLD WAR -- FROM E UNUM PLURIBUS TOWARDSE PLURIBUS UNUM -- I. BECOMING DIFFERENT -- II. REMAINING THE SAME -- III. RUBBING SHOULDERS IN THE EMERGING GLOBAL VILLAGE -- IV. OH, EAST IS EAST, AND WEST IS WEST, AND NEVER THE TWAINSHALL MEET, TILL EARTH AND SKY STAND PRESENTLY AT GOD'SGREAT JUDGMENT SEAT? -- V. DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN DIFFERENCES -- VI. IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE MAY EQUALTO APARTHEID -- CONCLUSIONS -- INDEX.