Democratisation Against Democracy: How EU Foreign Policy Fails the Middle East

by Pamela Abbott, Valeria Talbot, Andrea Teti, et al.

This book explains why the EU is not a 'normative actor' in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing 'what the people want', the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy which people do not share. Likewise, the EU's strategies for economic development are misconceived...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030338851
• ISBN13: 9783030338855
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"