Richard Youngs
Research Director, FRIDE
Democratisation

Richard Youngs is Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. Prior to joining FRIDE, he was EU Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004.
He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities, and previously worked as Analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom.
Geo tags
European Union Middle East and North Africa
Expert in
Democracy promotion Democratisation Energy Security EU Foreign Policy
Spoken languages
English, Spanish
Written languages
English, Spanish
Expert publications
- 13/05/2008 - Is European democracy promotion on the wane?
- 26/11/2007 - Political Islam and European Foreign Policy
- 17/09/2007 - Europe and the Gulf: Strategic Neglect
- 10/09/2007 - European Union External Democracy Promotion
- 24/07/2007 - Has the EU Got Its Iran Strategy Right?
- 08/03/2006 - Democracy and Security in the Middle East
- 05/07/2005 - No lasting Peace and Prosperity without Democracy
- 01/07/2005 - The Reluctant Debutante: The European Union as Promoter of Democracy in its Neighbourhood
- 18/11/2004 - Europe and Iraq: From Stand-off to Engagement?
- 14/10/2004 - Crunch time on Turkey



