The Eu S Democracy Promotion And The Mediterranean Neighbours

Author : Ann-Kristin Jonasson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135017705

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The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours by Ann-Kristin Jonasson Pdf

This book provides a systematic analysis of the EU’s extensive, but so far largely failed, efforts to promote democracy in the Mediterranean region, thoroughly assessing its democracy promotion in relation to two Mediterranean countries – Jordan and Turkey. By pinpointing essential prerequisites for democracy promotion and analyzing how the EU’s policies have related to these, the author offers a theoretically based analytical framework focused on the importance of the local orientation and ownership of the project of democratization, and the broader dialogue between the democracy promoter and the partner society. The author concludes that there are basic deficiencies in the EU’s democracy promotion, leading to policy implications of vital importance as the EU now grapples with how to make its democracy promotion successful. The EU’s Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours will be of interest to students and scholars of Democratisation studies, EU studies, Middle East Studies and EU Neighbourhood studies.

Author : Michelle Pace,Peter Seeberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317988625

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The European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean by Michelle Pace,Peter Seeberg Pdf

Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a central pillar of the foreign policy the European Union (EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, and on the degree to which these relations are affected by EU efforts at promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law (an outside-in approach), this collection of articles inverts the focus of such relationships and attempts to look at them ‘inside-out’. While some contributions also emphasise the ‘outside-in’ axis, given that this continues to be analytically rewarding, the overarching thrust of this book is to provide some empirical substance for the claim that EU policy making is not unidirectional and is influenced by the perceptions and actions of its ‘targets’. Thus, the focus is on domestic political changes on the ground in the MENA and how they link into what the EU is attempting to achieve in the region. Finally, the self-representation of the EU and its (lack of a) clear regional role is discussed. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : Mona Yacoubian
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1422310477

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Promoting Middle East Democracy by Mona Yacoubian Pdf

European security concerns have focused increasingly on the potential for instability on Europe¿s southern flank. In 1995, the European Union developed a framework for cooperation with the southern Mediterranean nations. In the aftermath of 9/11, the goal of encouraging the development of Middle East democracy has acquired greater urgency, not least in the eyes of the U.S., which has bolstered its own efforts to spur democratic reform. It will be important to assess the effectiveness of other democracy-promotion activities, including those undertaken by European counterparts. This report seeks to inform discussion in U.S. policymaking circles by offering an assessment of multilateral European democracy-promotion efforts in the Middle East.

Author : Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135710835

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Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood by Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig Pdf

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on ‘linkage’, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and ‘leverage’, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU’s relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while ‘linkage’ has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of ‘leverage’ has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the ‘governance’ model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries. This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU’s most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : Andrea Teti,Pamela Abbott,Valeria Talbot,Paolo Maggiolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030338831

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Democratisation against Democracy by Andrea Teti,Pamela Abbott,Valeria Talbot,Paolo Maggiolini Pdf

This book explains why the EU is not a ‘normative actor’ in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing ‘what the people want’, the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy which people do not share. Likewise, the EU’s strategies for economic development are misconceived because they do not reflect the people’s preferences for greater social justice and reducing inequalities. This double failure highlights a paradox of EU democracy promotion: while nominally emancipatory, it de facto undermines the very transitions to democracy and inclusive development it aims to pursue.

Author : Tina Freyburg,Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig,Tatiana Skripka,Anne Wetzel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137489357

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Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation by Tina Freyburg,Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig,Tatiana Skripka,Anne Wetzel Pdf

This book presents a novel 'governance model' of democracy promotion. In detailed case studies of EU cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine, it examines how the EU promotes democratic governance through functional cooperation in the fields of competition policy, the environment, and migration.

Author : A. Wetzel,J. Orbie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137466327

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The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion by A. Wetzel,J. Orbie Pdf

The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil and political rights, horizontal accountability, effective power to govern, stateness, state administrative capacity, civil society, and socio-economic context as components of embedded liberal democracy.

Author : D. Huber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137414472

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Democracy Promotion and Foreign Policy by D. Huber Pdf

Democracy promotion is an established principle in US and EU foreign policies today, but how did it become so? This comparative study explores the promotion of democracy, focusing on exponents from emerging democracies alongside more established Western models, and investigates the impact of democratic interests on foreign policy.

Author : Vera van Hüllen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137298522

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EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring by Vera van Hüllen Pdf

The author explores the practice and effects of the European Union's democracy promotion efforts vis-à-vis its authoritarian neighbours in the Middle East and North Africa. She argues that the same set of factors facilitated both international cooperation of authoritarian regimes on democracy promotion and their persistence during the Arab Spring.

Author : Georg Sorensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135200909

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Political Conditionality by Georg Sorensen Pdf

Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countries. Although this may seem to be an innocent policy, it has the potential to bring about a dramatic change in the basic principles of the international system: putting human rights first means putting respect for individuals and rights before respect for the sovereignty of states.

Author : Marek Neuman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926902

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Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework by Marek Neuman Pdf

This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.

Author : Anna Khakee,Sarah Wolff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781040108130

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Transversal Democracy Projection in the Mediterranean by Anna Khakee,Sarah Wolff Pdf

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy projection. Democracy projection is defined as the projection of (democratic) norms through the every-day practice of interactions - beyond any donor-recipient relationship - between states and foreign civil society actors on issue areas where both sides have interests to defend. The edited volume examines a variety of such issue areas, including trade, anti-corruption, applied research, gender and LGBTI, focusing on EU practices in its everyday dealings with civil society in the Southern Mediterranean. Based on comparative case studies relying on extensive interviews, direct observations and content analysis, the chapters in this book conclude that the extent to which democracy is projected varies according to four main factors: the EU’s perceived interest, its ideational commitment to norms of dialogue and inclusion, the degree of institutional inertia, and dominant discourses/structures of meanings which preclude EU engagement on substance. Transversal Democracy Projection in the Mediterranean will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, and Democratisation studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

Author : Brieg Powel,Larbi Sadiki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136994388

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Europe and Tunisia by Brieg Powel,Larbi Sadiki Pdf

This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia’s specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia’s specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity – and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union’s Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.

Author : Michael Emerson,Richard Youngs,Leila Alieva,Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9290799269

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Democracy's Plight in the European Neighbourhood by Michael Emerson,Richard Youngs,Leila Alieva,Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium) Pdf

Author : Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113810986X

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Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood by Sandra Lavenex,Frank Schimmelfennig Pdf

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on �linkage�, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and �leverage�, i.e. the top-down inducement of political elites towards democratic reforms through political conditionality. The advent of the European Neighbourhood Policy and new forms of association have introduced a new, third model of democracy promotion which rests in functional cooperation between administrations. This volume comparatively defines and assesses these three models of external democracy promotion in the EU�s relations with its eastern and southern neighbours. It argues that while �linkage� has hitherto failed to produce tangible outcomes, and the success of �leverage� has basically been tied to an EU membership perspective, the �governance� model of democracy promotion bears greater potential beyond the circle of candidate countries. This third approach, while not tackling the core institutions of the political system as such, but rather promoting transparency, accountability, and participation at the level of state administration, may turn out to remain the EU�s most tangible form of democratic governance promotion in the future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.