redaktion, Author at EDP Network

29. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion in the Post-Soviet Space

In this week’s contribution, Solveig looks at the way democracy is currently (not) being promoted in the post-soviet space. She argues that particularly three developments are worth noting: increasing contestation between the transatlantic community and Russia, a declining willingness by EU and US to push for democratic reforms, but also positive democratic progress in some parts of the region.

28. January 2019 | News

EDP guest researcher publication on India’s role in Nepal’s constitutional process

Dr. Prakash Bhattarai, Director of the Centre for Social Change in Nepal and a former PRIF guest researcher by invitation of the EDP Network, released his first publication as part of his research on Nepal’s relationship with its neighbor India: “Negotiating Between Unequal Neighbours: India’s Role in Nepal’s Recent Constitution-Making Process” (PRIF Working Paper).

22. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion under the current US Administration

This week Annika focusses on the second of two key actors on the world stage with regard to democracy promotion policies: the United States of America and their present administration’s democracy promotion policies. She argues that US democracy promotionis in a jam especially since Trump represents a low point for US credibility on the matter of democracy.

21. January 2019 | Publication

Harmony and Resilience: US Democracy Promotion’s Basic Premises

in: Foreign Policy Analysis (2019) 0, 1-18.

21. January 2019 | News

EDP Workshop: „Why to Fight against Dictatorship at high personal costs?”

Under the direction of two of our network members, Sonja Grimm (University of Konstanz / University of Basel) and Annika Elena Poppe (PRIF), the EDP network organized a workshop on January 17–18 on “Why to fight against dictatorship at high personal costs? Studying political activism and its leadership in autocracies” at the Peace Research Institute (PRIF) in Frankfurt.

16. January 2019 | Publication

Furthering Pluralism? The German Foundations in Transitional Tunisia

in: Voluntas – International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 30:6, 1284-1296

15. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion and the European Union

This week, Sonja turns to the European Union as one of the key actors on the world stage with regard to democracy promotion. Sonja argues that democracy promotion in the EU currently faces four main challenges: a loss of credibility, a lack of effectiveness, lacking willingness, and competition with regional powers’ counterveiling of European democracy promotion policies.

8. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Democracy Promotion by Indirect Means: Potential and Limits of Functional Cooperation

In her contribution to the EDP policy paper, Tina looks at a specific strategy of international governance assistance that some consider a promising alternative to the direct and explicit promotion of democracy and discusses whether democracy promotion through so called “functional cooperation” might be a solution to the current malaise

7. January 2019 | EDP Wire

Populist-leaning voters want more direct democracy – but do their parties deliver?

In this Wire, the authors discuss whether populist parties deliver one of the core demands that their supporters press for.

19. December 2018 | Publication

Responding to Closing Civic Space: Recent Experiences from Three Global Initiatives

CSIS Human Rights Initiative Report (December 2018). Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies.