Eastern dimension and the Balkans / Comment
Elections and European Neighbourhood Policy in Armenia
06/06/2008 By Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher
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After the Armenian presidential elections on 19 February 2008, the opposition organised mass demonstrations against the government, accusing it of rigging the vote. Violence on 1 March in which 10 people were killed led the outgoing President, Robert Kocharian, to declare a national state of emergency. This ended on 21 April, 20 days before former Prime Minister, Serge Sarkisian, was proclaimed President of the Armenian Republic. The reaction of the EU in the wake of these events was, at best, somewhat timid, if not weak. The intention of this article of Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher is to try to discern if European policies have been coherent with the EU’s democratic rhetoric, or if various geo-strategic considerations have perhaps played a greater role in determining them.
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Keywords
Armenia Caucasus Democracy Democracy promotion EU Foreign Policy European UnionRelated publications
- European Union External Democracy Promotion
- Is European democracy promotion on the wane?
- Political Islam and European Foreign Policy
Bio author: Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher
PhD in Political Science and International Relationes (University Autónoma, Madrid), she is a graduate in Humanities (University Carlos III, Madrid) and in Philosophy (UNED, Spanish Distance University)
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