The EU as an External Democracy Promoter: East and Central Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Africa and Pacific (ACP) in Comparison

Research question/goal: 

Within its external governance the EU is exporting its own model of legitimate democratic governance in third countries and is acting there as an external democracy promoter. Doing so, the EU is using various instruments. The central hypothesis of this project is focusing on the process of choosing these instruments. Three factors are assumed to be relevant for this choice: the potential to act of the EU, the structure of resonance of third states and the resource-relation between the EU and the third country. As a contextual variable the international environment is conceptionalized as changes in the international system and/or the competition towards other States or International Organizations.

Fact sheet

Duration: 
2004 to 2007
Status: 
canceled
Data Sources: 
Interviews and documents
Geographic Space: 
East and Central Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Africa and Pacific (ACP)

Publications

Other Publications

Schimmelfennig, Frank (2005): The International Promotion of Political Norms in Central and Eastern Europe: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Cambridge, Mass. [Central and Eastern Europe Working Papers] more

Conference Presentations

Knodt, Michèle (2005): Theorising the EU as an External Democracy Promoter. [The EU as an External Democracy Promoter, Darmstadt, November 18th to November 19th, 2005] more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2005): Democracy Promotion in ENP: Coherence and Effectiveness. [European Neighborhood Policy, Atlanta, Georgia, April 03rd to April 04th, 2005] more
Schimmelfennig, Frank (2005): The International Promotion of Political Norms by European Regional Organizations: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis. [Conference on EU Enlargement, Miami, Florida, April 22nd, 2005] more
Stewart, Susan (2005): EU Democracy Promotion in the Civil Society Realm: The Baltics and the Western Balkans Compared. [The EU as an External Democracy Promoter, Darmstadt, November 18th to November 19th, 2005] more