This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia's specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia's specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity - and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union's Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.

Author: Powel, Brieg
Author: Sadiki, Larbi
Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: Y
Language: ENG
Title: Europe and Tunisia: Democratization via Association
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2010-04-29
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780415497893
Lib Category: Tunisia - Politics and government
Lib Category: Democratization - Tunisia
Category: History : Middle East - General
Category: Social Science : Regional Studies
Category: Political Science : Political Process - General