20. December 2017 | EDP Wire
More and more countries restrict how NGOs operate, often by limiting their funding. The response is frequently to argue that these restrictions flout international law or amount to crackdowns on the opposition. Annika and Jonas argue that the objections to NGO activity need to be taken seriously.
read more »18. December 2017 | Publication
18. December 2017 | Publication
15. December 2017 | News
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.
read more »28. November 2017 | EDP Wire
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”.
read more »14. November 2017 | Publication
13. November 2017 | Publication
8. November 2017 | EDP Wire
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.
read more »7. November 2017 | Publication
in: Schumacher, Tobias/Demmelhuber Thomas/Machetti Andreas (eds.): Routledge Handbook of the European Neighbourhood Policy. London: Routledge, 467-480.
read more »7. November 2017 | Publication