Prospects of regime transformation in Belarus

• Autores: Vytautas Sirijos Gira, �ivile Dambrauskaite.
• Localización: Documentos de Trabajo ( Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos ), ISSN-e 1696-3504, Nº. 12, 2010
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ever since A. Lukashenka was elected for his first presidential term, and up until the late 1990s, there were claims that his rule was only a temporary and transitional episode in Belarus�s political and economic development. Fifteen years on, there is little doubt that the only transition that has taken place in Belarus since its independence is a drift towards an increasingly authoritarian regime. Nevertheless, although the regime is consolidating it is remarkable how it was built and is currently relying on a surprisingly fragile combination of external and domestic factors.