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The European Union's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean
Author: Michelle Pace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1317988620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours
Author: Ann-Kristin Jonasson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1135017697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood
Author: Sandra Lavenex
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 113571083X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Promoting Middle East Democracy
Democratisation against Democracy
Author: Andrea Teti
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-20
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 3030338835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation
Author: Tina Freyburg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1137489359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion
Author: A. Wetzel
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1137466324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring
Author: Vera van Hüllen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1137298529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Democracy Promotion and Foreign Policy
Author: D. Huber
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1137414472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
