To conclude, the results of democracy promotion strategies tend to confirm the basic point of democratization theory for over 50 years.
Democracy is a domestic affair par excellence.
Although the more forcible strategies, like control and conditionality, are more effective than incentives, their success depends either on favourable economic, social, political and cultural conditions in the target countries or on the creation of those conditions through massive investment and judicious and targeted intervention over a long or very long period of time.