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Assessing Democracy Assistance

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Explaining Spain's unfulfilled potential

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Transatlantic relations after one year of Obama

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Richard Youngs

Director General

Richard Youngs is director general of FRIDE. He is also assistant professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. Prior to joining FRIDE, he was EU Marie Curie research fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Relations, Oslo (2001-4), and senior research fellow at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1995-8). He has a PhD and an MA in International Studies from the University of Warwick and a BA in Social and Political Science from the University of Cambridge. 

His research focuses mainly on democracy promotion and democratisation, European foreign policy, energy security, and the MENA region. He is author of several books and articles and publishes regularly in national and international media. Some of his latest works include Europe’s Role in Global Politics: A Retreat from Liberal Internationalism (Routledge, 2010); European Democracy Promotion, (Ed., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, forthcoming); ‘Europe should rethink its aid to Palestine’ (Financial Times, 22 March 2010); ‘Pushing the EU towards a “great vision” ’(with Pedro Solbes, El País, 2 February 2010); Energy Security: Europe's New Foreign Policy Challenge (Routledge, 2009); and Islamist Radicalisation: The challenge for Euro-Mediterranean relations (Ed. with Michael Emerson, CEPS, 2009).




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

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