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State-building policies deployed by the USA and European Union countries since 1990shave been analysed in regards to the challenges connected with regional destabilizationand internal deconstruction. USA’s and EU’s involvement in said policies, coupled with the strengththening (or creating new) of state administration bodies, encouraging a democratic,rule of law state and constitutional order was explained in terms of both expansion ofWestern influence and as actual attempts at improving international security by replacingfallen countries with stable democratic ones.A common direction for American and European actions were large-scale interventions. Theiraim was both to provide foundation for democratic state structure and to improve internationalsecurity by removing the “safety vacuum” that existed in areas outside international alliancesof internally-conflicted states which were home to movements threatening the order set byworld powers and organizations of regional co-operation.The instruments used by the USA and the EU in their state-building policies connected withsupporting democratization processes point to common ideology in terms of structural andaxiological foundations of democratic rule. Additionally, as evidenced by their activity in Iraq,both aim at international popularization of said actions.Key words: state-building, USA, EU, democratization, Iraq