Comparative Perspectives on the Substance of Eu Democracy Promotion

ISBN-13: 9780367074753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 140 str.

Anne Wetzel; Jan Orbie; Fabienne Bossuyt

Opis

This book examines the substance of European Union (EU) democracy promotion by comparing it with norms of governance that other international actors promote, among them the United Nations, the United States, Eastern EU member states, Russia, China and non-governmental organizations. Reflecting the nature of the EU, the substance of EU democracy promotion is found to be both diffuse and unbudgeable at the level of concepts and discourse, and flexible and technocratic at the level of implementation.

This book was published as a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 2. Constructing new environments versus attitude adjustment: contrasting the substance of democracy in UN and EU democracy promotion discourses  3. Cosmetic agreements and the cracks beneath: ideological convergences and divergences in US and EU  democracy promotion in civil society  4. Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states  5. Promoting democracy or the external context? Comparing the substance of EU and US democracy assistance in Ethiopia  6. Democracy promotion in Kosovo: mapping the substance of donor assistance and a comparative analysis of strategies  7. International, national or local? Explaining the substance of democracy promotion: the case of Eastern European democracy promotion