This title examines the role of democracy and human rights in EU foreign policy. Does the EU include human rights and democracy in its foreign policy? If so, why? And if not, why?

This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. With the Arab spring putting the spotlight on the EU s self-portrait as committed to promoting global human rights and democracy, this book examines the paradoxes of its international posture and the inconsistencies and double standards of its policies.

With an informative and empirical approach examining EU relations since the end of the Cold War, this book seeks to uncover the reasons behind the Union s actions and...