Democratisation against Democracy How EU Foreign Policy Fails the Middle East 9783030338831

This book explains why the EU is not a ‘normative actor’ in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy pro

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Democratisation against Democracy How EU Foreign Policy Fails the Middle East
9783030338831

In the post-9/11 era, the EU has attempted to shape itself into, and certainly has aspirations of being, a key foreign a

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EU policy-makers have in the past decade endeavoured to formulate a substantial redefinition of the organisation's

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The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts,

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After Saddam: American Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Secularism in the Middle East investigates the manner in wh

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What do we mean by ‘gifts’ in International Relations? Can foreign aid be conceptualized as a gift? Most foreign aid tra

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The war in Syria has put Russia at the centre of Middle Eastern politics. Moscow’s return to the region following a prol

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This book looks at practitioners’ approaches to the EU’s foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood, particularly Russi

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Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, wh

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What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity? Thisbook argues that government policies in both foreign r

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This book provides wanting to study episodes of EU foreign policy change with a single analytical framework that serves

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