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This paper presents results of a research project seeking to identify the factors that explain differences in democracy promotion policies. It analyzes the policies of two "donors" (USA, Germany) towards six "recipient" countries (Pakistan and Turkey, Bolivia and Ecuador, Russia and Belarus). Furthermore, it studies how donor states react to specific challenges that arise from recipient countries, leading to conflicting objectives on the part of the democracy promoters. The paper asks how democracy promoters deal with conflicting objectives and assesses the overall national patterns that characterize U.S. and German democracy promotion. Causal explanations are offered based on a theoretical framework that combines power-, interest- and norm-based determinants.