Democracy promotion in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
remains a central pillar of the foreign policy the European Union
(EU). Rather than concentrating on the relations between the
incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant
countries, and on the degree to which these relations are affected
by EU efforts at promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of
law (an outside-in approach), this collection of articles inverts
the focus of such relationships and attempts to look at them
inside-out . While some contributions also emphasise the outside-in
axis, given that this continues to be analytically rewarding, the
overarching thrust of this book is to provide some empirical
substance for the claim that EU policy making is not unidirectional
and is influenced by the perceptions and actions of its targets .
Thus, the focus is on domestic political changes on the ground in
the MENA and how they link into what the EU is attempting to
achieve in the region. Finally, the self-representation of the EU
and its (lack of a) clear regional role is discussed.
This book was published as a special issue of
Democratization.
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