European Union and the Promotion of Democracy - Europe''s Mediterranean and Asian Policies

Zusatztext The author's command of the subject matter, enriched by insights gained from his 'insider' access that flows from time spent working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, combine to produce a detailed and sophisticated analysis. Klappentext This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the Mediterranean, addressing theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor. The factors driving and inhibiting European democracy promotion policies are explored, and the EU's distinctive "bottom-up" approach to political change is outlined. The book notes an evolution in European policies, while arguing that the EU has failed to develop a fully comprehensive and coherent democracy promotion strategy. Zusammenfassung This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the North African and Middle Eastern States within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership - these two regions being the source of some of the strongest conceptual challenges to 'Western' liberal democracy since the end of the cold war. The book addresses theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor. The factors both driving and inhibiting European democracy promotion policies are explored. The book outlines the EU's distinctive bottom-up philosophy, aimed at constructing the socio-economic and ideational foundations for political liberalization, but argues that the EU has in practice failed to develop a fully comprehensive and coherent democracy promotion strategy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Democracy Promotion in the 1990s: Agency, Motives, and Strategy EU Democracy Promotion Instruments: Evolution and Shortcomings The EU and the Mediterranean The EU and Algeria The EU and East Asia The EU and China Conclusion: Conceptualizing the EU as a Promoter of Democracy ...

Product details

• Authors: Richard Youngs, Richard ( Youngs, Richard (Senior Research Fellow Youngs, Youngs Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2002
• EAN: 9780199242122
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924212-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Oxford Studies in Democratization; Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratizat; Oxford Studies in Democratization
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions