Promoting democracy is an integral part of the EU's policy towards the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this book, the German, Georgian and Uzbek authors provide answers to four questions: Which instruments are used by the EU to promote democracy in the countries of the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia and in which way? How can the decisions concerning the use of these instruments be explained? What impact do the instruments have on the democratic quality of the states in question? How can this impact be explained? To answer these questions, the authors examine all the EU's activities in the field of promoting external democracy, which has not been done before. In addition, the analysis is based on interviews conducted and data collected by the authors in Brussels, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.