debleu Master EDP, Author at EDP Network

28. December 2015 | EDP Wire

The crisis of EU democracy promotion

Democracy promotion is an integral component of European foreign policy. However, European democracy promotion is less effective than assumed and hoped for. Sonja Grimm offers four explanations: (1) the absence of a consensus among democracy promoters about policy objectives…

Network members’ second bi-annual meeting at the DIE in Bonn

Network members gathered for our second bi-annual network meeting at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn, where we discussed the conceptual approach for our joint project on democracy promotion as interaction as well as several individual projects and our …

Abkehr von der Demokratie: Die große Ernüchterung

Der globale Siegeszug der Demokratie, der in den 1990er Jahren unaufhaltsam schien, ist vorerst gestoppt. Das liegt nicht nur an neuen Mächten wie Russland und China: Europa und Nordamerika haben als Modell an Glaubwürdigkeit verloren.