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Abstract
The present review article takes stock of the scholarly literature on EU democracy promotion in the EU's eastern and southern neighbourhood. By deploying the criteria of foreign policy analysis (FPA), the article evaluates the policy context, actor identity, and the policy instruments of EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood. It argues that the literature still lacks a proper understanding of the role of other actors in the EU's democracy promotion policy, pays insufficient attention to democracy promotion programmes by individual member states, and has the potential for expansion towards good governance promotion studies.
Notes on contributors
Dmytro Panchuk is a PhD candidate at the Centre for EU Studies under the auspices of the Erasmus Mundus Grant – EuroEast Project.
Fabienne Bossuyt is assistant professor at the Centre for EU Studies.
Notes
1. Balfour, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy.
2. Freyburg, “Transgovernmental Networks as Catalysts for Democratic Change?”
3. Pace, “The Construction of EU Normative Power.”
4. Stewart, Democracy Promotion and the “Colour Revolutions.”
5. Wetzel, “The Promotion of Participatory Governance in the EU's External Policies.”
6. Jonasson, The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours.
7. Casier, “The EU's Two-Track Approach to Democracy Promotion.”
8. White, “Foreign Policy Analysis and the New Europe,” 24.
9. Ibid., 26.
10. Due to size constraints, we do not consider the internal context of EU democracy promotion policy.
11. Balfour, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy.
12. Jonasson, The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours.
13. Lavenex and Schimmelfennig, Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood.
14. Kopstein, “The Transatlantic Divide over Democracy Promotion.”
15. Balfour, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy, 145.
16. Pace, Seeberg, and Cavatorta, “The EU's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean.”
17. Jonasson, The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours, 56.
18. Solonenko, “External Democracy Promotion in Ukraine”; Dimitrova and Dragneva, “Constraining External Governance.”
19. Ibid.
20. Stewart, Democracy Promotion and the “Colour Revolutions.”
21. Ibid., 174.
22. Manners, “Normative Power Europe.”
23. Hyde-Price, “‘Normative’ Power Europe”; Bicchi, “Our Size Fits All.”
24. Balfour, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy, 141.
25. Smith, European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World.
26. Youngs, “Is European Democracy Promotion on the Wane?”, 3.
27. Copsey and Haughton, “The Choices for Europe.”
28. Petrova, “How Poland Promotes Democracy”; Papadimitriou and Phinnemore, “Exporting Europeanization to the Wider Europe.”
29. Jonasson, The EU's Democracy Promotion and the Mediterranean Neighbours.
30. Bicchi, “Dilemmas of Implementation.”
31. Ibid.; Korosteleva, The European Union and Its Eastern Neighbours.
32. Balfour, Human Rights and Democracy in EU Foreign Policy, 39.
33. Kubicek, “Political Conditionality and European Union's Cultivation of Democracy in Turkey.”
34. Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier, The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe; Bossuyt and Kubicek, “Advancing Democracy on Difficult Terrain.”
35. Langbein and Wolczuk, “Convergence without Membership?”
36. Freyburg, “Transgovernmental Networks as Catalysts for Democratic Change?”
37. Freyburg et al., “Democracy Promotion through Functional Cooperation?”
38. Lavenex and Schimmelfennig, Democracy Promotion in the EU's Neighbourhood, 12–13.
39. Freyburg, Planting the Seeds of Change Inside?