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European Union External Democracy Promotion
10/09/2007 By Ana Echagüe, Susanne Gratius, Richard Youngs
The topic of external democracy promotion is currently a top priority on both the political and scientific agenda. In the framework of its external governance, the EU exports its view of legitimate democratic governance of nation-states to third countries and acts in turn as an external promoter of democracy.
Within integration theory it is assumed that the EU can be categorized as a value-driven community which represents these values within its external governance. This ascription refers to concepts of democracy, human rights, the rule of law and "good governance".
By focusing on the many countries with either no EU-accession perspective or long-term accession perspective rather than on those under the effect of accession, this volume attempts for the first time to broadly cover the lack of comparative work done to date.
Edited by Annettee Jünemann and Michèle Knodt the book includes chapters by FRIDE researchers Ana Echagüe and Richard Youngs on the Middle East and Susanne Gratius on Latin America.
For further information and to purchase the book, please visit Nomos website.
Keywords
Democracy promotion Enlargement European Union GovernanceBio author: Ana Echagüe
Ana Echagüe is a researcher at FRIDE. Her research focuses on political reform in the Arab world, democratisation, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Cooperation Council
Bio author: Susanne Gratius
Susanne Gratius is a senior researcher at FRIDE.Her research focuses on EU-Latin American relations, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, and emerging powers.
Bio author: Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs is Director General of FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.
