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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 has written several books on different elements of European external policy and published over forty articles and working papers, while writing regularly in national and international media. His latest work is Europe’s Decline and Fall: the struggle against global irrelevance (Profile Books, 2010).

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

• 22/11/2011 - European foreign policy and economic crisis: what impact and how to respond?

• 05/10/2011 - The EU and the Arab spring: from munificence to geo-strategy

• 13/07/2011 - Will Rising Democracies Become International Democracy Supporters?

• 27/05/2011 - Palestine

• 13/04/2011 - EU human rights policy towards Russia

• 15/03/2011 - What not to do in the Middle East and North Africa

• 21/02/2011 - After peace talks: what next for EU policy in Palestine?

• 16/02/2011 - Europe's challenge is to shake-off inertia before it becomes paralysis

• 25/01/2011 - Misunderstanding the maladies of liberal democracy promotion

• 29/11/2010 - Europe's decline and fall

• 02/11/2010 - Security through democracy: Between aspiration and pretence

• 13/09/2010 - The European Union and Democracy Promotion: A Critical Global Assessment

• 09/09/2010 - The end of democratic conditionality: good riddance?

• 18/08/2010 - The EU's Role in World Politics

• 23/07/2010 - How to revitalise democracy assistance: Recipients'views

• 09/06/2010 - Europe is failing to shape the global governance debate

• 31/05/2010 - Europe and the Euro: In Freefall

• 01/03/2010 - European conflict resolution policies: truncated peace-building

• 12/02/2010 - Why the European Union needs a 'broader Middle East' policy

• 12/01/2010 - Explaining Spain's unfulfilled potential

• 02/12/2009 - Beyond Copenhagen: Securitising climate change

• 30/11/2009 - What rol for Sub-Saharan Africa in Europe's energy policies

• 26/11/2009 - New Challenges to Democratization

• 30/10/2009 - Democracy's plight in the European Neighbourhood

• 24/09/2009 - The end of the Euro-Mediterranean vision

• 08/09/2009 - The G20: A dangerous multilateralism?

• 05/09/2009 - Europe and the politics of financial crisis

• 30/06/2009 - Dicing with Democracy

• 03/06/2009 - Islamist radicalisation: the challenge for euro-mediterranean relations

• 28/04/2009 - Impasse in Euro-Gulf relations

• 10/02/2009 - Energy security: Europe's new foreign policy challenge

• 22/01/2009 - Europe, the US and Middle Eastern democracy

• 14/01/2009 - Gaza's hell: Why the EU must change its policy

• 19/12/2008 - Is the European Union supporting democracy in its neighbourhood?

• 14/11/2008 - The financial crisis and EU foreign policy

• 10/11/2008 - Energy challenges in the Middle East and North Africa

• 02/10/2008 - Development, security and energy: improving coherence

• 22/09/2008 - Algeria: Democratic transition case study

• 16/09/2008 - Oil companies and the EU' s external energy policies

• 12/09/2008 - The politics of energy

• 30/07/2008 - Energy: a reinforced obstacle to democracy?

• 21/07/2008 - Europe's inconsistent support for democratic reform in Ukraine

• 02/06/2008 - Is the League of Democracies a Bad Idea? how Europe should respond

• 13/05/2008 - Is European democracy promotion on the wane?

• 21/04/2008 - Trends in democracy assistance: what has Europe been doing?

• 26/11/2007 - Political Islam and European Foreign Policy

• 23/11/2007 - Europe's external energy policy: between geopolitics and the market

• 03/10/2007 - Europe's potential as a force for international ethics

• 17/09/2007 - Europe and the Gulf: strategic neglect

• 14/09/2007 - Fusing Security and Development: just another euro-platitude?

• 10/09/2007 - European Union External Democracy Promotion

• 24/07/2007 - Has the EU Got Its Iran Strategy Right?

• 07/03/2007 - The EU and the Middle East Peace Process: Re-engagement?

• 10/01/2007 - Europe's energy policy: economics, ethics, geopolitics

• 10/01/2007 - New Governments, New Directions in European Foreign Policies?

• 12/12/2006 - Democracy promotion and the european left: ambivalence confused?

• 05/09/2006 - Europe and the Middle East: in the shadow of septembre 11

• 20/06/2006 - Strategies for Democratic Change: assessing the Global Response

• 01/05/2006 - Survey of European Democracy Promotion Policies 2000-2006

• 08/03/2006 - Democracy and Security in the Middle East

• 12/10/2005 - The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: assessing the first decade

• 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

• 14/01/2005 - Ten years of the Barcelona Process: a model for supporting Arab Reform?

• 18/11/2004 - Europe and Iraq: from stand-off to engagement?

• 14/10/2004 - Crunch time on Turkey

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