The European Union's Democratization Policy for Central Asia
Author | : Vera Axyonova |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3838266943 |
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Author | : Vera Axyonova |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3838266943 |
Author | : Marek Neuman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 331992690X |
This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.
Author | : Aijan Sharshenova |
Publisher | : Ibidem Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783838211510 |
Brussels made democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and good governance its top co-operation priorities in the EU Strategy Framework towards Central Asia for 2007?2013. This book examines two interrelated questions: To what extent has EU democracy promotion in Central Asia been successful? And, to the extent that it was successful, why was it so? The book presents a comprehensive analytical framework for the evaluation of democracy promotion, including factors which may facilitate or hinder democratic development in Central Asia.
Author | : Mariya Y. Omelicheva |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813160693 |
Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be "democracy resistant," and their governments have continued to support various forms of authoritarianism in the decades following the Soviet Union's collapse. In Democracy in Central Asia, Mariya Omelicheva examines the beliefs and values underlying foreign policies of the major global powers—the United States, the European Union, Russia, and China—in order to understand their efforts to influence political change in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Omelicheva has traveled extensively in the region, collecting data from focus groups and public opinion surveys. She draws on the results of her fieldwork as well as on official documents and statements of democracy-promoting nations in order to present a provocative new analysis. Her study reveals that the governments and citizens of Central Asia have developed their own views on democracy supported by the Russian and Chinese models rather than by Western examples. The vast majority of previous scholarly work on this subject has focused on the strategies of democratization pursued by one agent such as the United States or the European Union. Omelicheva shifts the focus from democracy promoters' methods to their message and expands the scope of existing analysis to include multiple sources of influence. Her fresh approach illuminates the full complexity of both global and regional notions of good governance and confirms the importance of social-psychological and language-based perspectives in understanding the obstacles to expanding egalitarianism.
Author | : Richard Youngs |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0801897327 |
Richard Youngs is the director of Fride, Madrid, and an associate professor at the University of Warwick. He has authored five books, including Europe㠒ole in Global Politics: A Retreat from Liberal Internationalism --Book Jacket.
Author | : Rick Fawn |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2024-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1040090680 |
From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important. This book includes 12 chapters written by seasoned and policy-engaged researchers from across Eurasia and the wider world that analyse multiple levels of mutual interactions, understandings and misunderstandings across a range of policy areas. It shows why and in what ways exactly the EU and Central Asia matter to each other and why policymakers and researchers should pay more attention to their interactions. Central Asia falls under the broader external relations and security agenda of the EU, and over years it provided a testing ground for many EU policies, including the priority ones of region-building and resilience promotion. Looking at the EU, in turn, informs as to how Central Asian actors interact with external partners of the region, and how that can influence national policy agendas and consequently everyday life – bringing new approaches, insights and evidence also to the wide field of EU studies. This book is of key interest to scholars, practitioners and students of Central Asian history and politics, EU foreign policy, EU-Central Asia relations, and more broadly of EU studies, International Relations, regionalism and interregionalism as well as security studies. The chapters in this book were published over three issues of Central Asian Survey.
Author | : Anne Wetzel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317295390 |
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, the Central and East European EU member states, Russia, China and non-governmental organizations. It aims is to gain a better understanding of the EU’s democracy promotion agenda and to learn more about the (in)distinctiveness of the norms diffused by the EU. Building on a common conceptual chapter, the contributions follow different theoretical approaches and research designs, and focus on a diversity of case studies. The book concludes that in comparison with other international actors, the EU’s conceptual approach to democracy promotion is diffuse, which in turn makes the EU a particularly flexible but also ‘technical’ democracy promoter when it comes to implementation. At the same time, there are limits to flexibility at the level of concepts and frames. This indicates a distinct character of the substance of EU democracy promotion, which can be linked to the nature of the EU polity. This book was published as a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
Author | : Michèle Knodt |
Publisher | : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
ISBN | : 9783848729609 |
Promoting democracy is an integral part of the EU's policy towards the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this book, the German, Georgian and Uzbek authors provide answers to four questions: Which instruments are used by the EU to promote democracy in the countries of the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia and in which way? How can the decisions concerning the use of these instruments be explained? What impact do the instruments have on the democratic quality of the states in question? How can this impact be explained? To answer these questions, the authors examine all the EU's activities in the field of promoting external democracy, which has not been done before. In addition, the analysis is based on interviews conducted and data collected by the authors in Brussels, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
Author | : Benedetta Berti |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317502426 |
New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry. This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ changing the EU on crucial policy issues as part of the common foreign and security policy. Furthermore, it tracks the process whereby imported ideas and norms are recycled for further export ‘downstream’, and how these concepts are received in countries outside of the EU including the post-Soviet space, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa region and Central Asia. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratisation studies, European Union studies, comparative politics, international relations, international development, European politics, as well as area/regional studies.