Promoting Middle East Democracy
Title | Promoting Middle East Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Yacoubian |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Democratization |
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Since the end of the Cold War, 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. These efforts have included some relatively ineffective programs to promote democracy in the region. 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 United States, which has bolstered its own efforts to spur democratic reform.
Promoting Middle East Democracy: European Initiatives
Title | Promoting Middle East Democracy: European Initiatives PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Yacoubian |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
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Promoting Middle East Democracy II
Title | Promoting Middle East Democracy II PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Yacoubian |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Democratization |
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The European Union and the Arab Spring
Title | The European Union and the Arab Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Peters |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0739174452 |
The European Union and the Arab Spring: Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East, edited by Joel Peters, analyzes the response of the European Union to recent uprisings in the Middle East. The past year has witnessed a wave of popular uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East which the Western media dubbed "the Arab Spring." Demanding greater freedoms, political reform, and human rights, the protesters swept away many of the region's authoritarian autocratic regimes. The events of the Arab Spring have been truly historic. They led to profound changes in the domestic order of Middle Eastern states and societies and impacted the international politics of the region. Additionally, these events necessitate a comprehensive reappraisal by the United States and most notably by the EU in their relations with the states and peoples of the region. This timely collection brings together nine leading authorities on European foreign policy and the Middle East, and investigates three central questions: What role did the European Union play in promoting democracy and human rights in the countries of North Africa and the Middle East? How did the EU respond to the uprisings of the Arab street? What challenges is Europe now facing in its relations with the region? Peters' The European Union and the Arab Spring is at the forefront of scholarship on this historic socio-political shift in the Middle East and its wider implications for the West.
Promoting Middle East Democracy
Title | Promoting Middle East Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Mona Yacoubian |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2008-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781422310472 |
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.
Democratisation against Democracy
Title | Democratisation against Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Teti |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2020-01-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030338835 |
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.
The European Union and the Promotion of Democracy
Title | The European Union and the Promotion of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Youngs |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2002-01-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191529281 |
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.