EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring
ISBN:
9781137298515
Auflage:
1st ed. 2015
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.08.2015
Reihe:
Governance and Limited Statehood
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
242
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The author explores the practice and effects of the European Union's democracy promotion efforts vis-à-vis its authoritarian neighbours in the Middle East and North Africa. She argues that the same set of factors facilitated both international cooperation of authoritarian regimes on democracy promotion and their persistence during the Arab Spring.
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Biografische Anmerkung
Vera van Hüllen is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany. Her research investigates the role of regional organizations in international democracy promotion and regime dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular in light of the 'Arab Spring'. She recently co-edited the collection Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script (with T. Börzel, 2015).
