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Democracy promotion / Book

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 Governance

Bio author: Ana Echagüe

Graduate in International Relations and Art History from Tufts University and obtained her Masters in International Relations from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to joining FRIDE, she was Deputy Director at the University of the Middle East Project in Madrid. She has also worked as a financial analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.

Bio author: Susanne Gratius

PhD in Political Science by the University of Hamburg. Expert in Latin America.

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.