CIAO DATE: 10/2012
August 2012
Centre for European Policy Studies
While the EU has recently upgraded its external democracy promotion policies through a number of different initiatives, there is one challenge that it has not yet addressed: what exactly does it aim to support? This policy brief illustrates that both the conceptualisation of democracy and the means to achieve it remain vague, and explains why this is problematic. It points out the risks that stem from a lack of clear understanding about how human rights, governance, civil society and socio-economic development relate to democratisation.
Resource link: The EU's Promotion of External Democracy: In search of the plot [PDF] - 68K