Description: "Offering a cutting edge study of the European Union's (EU) promotion of democratic governance in neighbouring countries, this new book makes an original contribution to the study of democracy promotion and of EU external relations by presenting a new governance model of democracy promotion.Through robust analysis of the shortcomings of traditional 'leverage' and 'linkage' models of external democracy promotion in the EU's Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, it presents a novel 'governance model' that fosters transparency, accountability, and participation standards through functional cooperation between policy officials from the EU and neighbouring states. In particular, it examines the impact of democratic governance promotion in detailed case studies of EU sectoral cooperation with Moldova, Morocco, and Ukraine in the three policy fields of competition, environment, and migration. "--
Review Quotes:
"Book's main aim is to establish an alternative view of how the EU tries to promote democracy in its neighbourhood: through functional cooperation that may lead to democratic governance in the partner country. ... EU bureaucrats will read it with great pleasure, as it claims to not simply repeat the often-heard criticism of 'EU failure' and 'EU loss of credibility' in democracy promotion, but to draw a more nuanced picture of the success of EU democracy support in its neighbourhood." (Jan Claudius Völkel, Democratization, Vol. 23 (5), August, 2016)
"Book's main achievement is the construction of a comprehensive design, documented by empirical findings, to study the full democratising potential of the EU democratic governance model in three very different policy environments, stressing the main differences that arise in practice between the adoption phase and the implementation phase. ... a valuable scholarly contribution that shows that, if we are to successfully re-examine EU democracy promotion at this time of crisis, we need to focus on sectoral policies and their local specificities." (Miruna Troncota, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 68 (5), July, 2016)