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Strategies for Democratic Change: assessing the Global Response

20/06/2006 By Ted Piccone, Richard Youngs

The Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) and the Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) have published a book that examines how the international community has responded to recent threats to democracy in seven countries.

"Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response", provides an in-depth analysis of how EU states, the United States and other international actors can better fulfil their commitments to support democracy by coordinating common strategies.

The book examines what the international community has done recently to advance democratic transition and consolidation in Burma, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and how it could do better.

Strategies for Democratic Change is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate on democracy promotion, in a context in which recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan and the "colour revolutions" have brought this issue to the top of the international agenda.

The joint publication, edited by DCP's Executive Director, Ted Piccone, and by FRIDE's Director of the Democratisation programme Richard Youngs, was presented at a policy forum in Brussels, on June 20, 2006.

 

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Keywords

Burma Democracy promotion EU Foreign Policy Political Reform Togo Turkey Ukraine Venezuela Yemen Zimbabwe

Bio author: Ted Piccone

Ted Piccone is a foreign policy and legal expert on issues of democracy, human rights, international organisations and Latin American affairs. Currently, he is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Democracy Coalition Project, a policy research and advocacy organisation working to promote democracy around the world. Ted Piccone also serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid, an association of former heads of state and of government engaged in efforts to strengthen democracy. Ted Piccone received a law degree from Columbia University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and The Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual. He received a B.A. in History magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bio author: Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.