redaktion, Author at EDP Network

15. December 2017 | News

Workshop at DIE: “Whither the End of the Liberal Order.” Do Societal Values Influence the Effectiveness of Democracy Support?”

Based on the findings of the three-year research project “What is democracy’s value?” led by our EDP network member Julia Leininger, the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn held a workshop from 7 to 8 December 2017 entitled “Whither the “End of the Liberal Order.” Do Societal Values Influence the Effectiveness of Democracy Support?”. During the two-day workshop participants discussed core values and effectiveness of international democracy support.

28. November 2017 | EDP Wire

Review of “External Democracy Promotion and Diversity Among International Agencies – Evaluating Variances in the Impact of the UNDP and the EC in Rwanda” by Simone Beetz

This EDP wire contribution presents a review of Simone Beetz’ 2017 empirical analysis on “External Democracy Promotion and Diversity Among International Agencies – Evaluating Variances in the Impact of the UNDP and the EC in Rwanda”.

14. November 2017 | Publication

Profits from Peace: The Political Economy of Power-Sharing and Corruption

in: World Development, 99, 60-74.

13. November 2017 | Publication

Governing the Interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals: Approaches to Attain Policy Integration

in: Global Challenges, published online: 13 November 2017.

8. November 2017 | EDP Wire

A model for predicting future EU enlargements – and why most candidate states could be waiting some time

The last state to join the European Union was Croatia in 2013, but when can current candidate states expect to secure their accession to the EU? Tina Freyburg and Tobias Böhmelt present results from a new study of the capacity of candidate states to meet accession criteria.

7. November 2017 | Publication

Democracy Promotion By Functional Cooperation

in: Schumacher, Tobias/Demmelhuber Thomas/Machetti Andreas (eds.): Routledge Handbook of the European Neighbourhood Policy. London: Routledge, 467-480.

7. November 2017 | Publication

Resistance to International Democracy Promotion in Morocco and Tunisia

in: Third World Thematics. A TWQ Journal, 2:5, 637-657.

7. November 2017 | Publication

Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia

in: Third World Thematics. A TWQ Journal, 2:5, 637-657.

3. November 2017 | EDP Wire

The Trump administration and democracy promotion: thinking about regime change?

In this EDP wire contribution, Nick discusses the Trump administration’s linking of democracy support to the pursuit of US security goals and the potential damage this could do the fledgling efforts at a collective democracy-building.

4. October 2017 | EDP Wire

Bridge to Democracy? The Role of EIDHR and EED Funded Democracy Projects in Armenia

The Armenian government is sending mixed signals to Brussels by joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in 2014 and proposing an Anti- NGO Law in 2015. As Armenia and the EU commenced policies under the umbrella of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in 2006, this provided the EU with the possibility to more cautiously control the democratizations processes in Armenia. However, as of the time of writing, the EU seems to not have any influence on developments on the ground.