The Visegrad Group And Democracy Promotion

Author : Jan Hornat
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030781887
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visegrad Group and Democracy Promotion written by Jan Hornat and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the substance and strategies of democracy promotion conducted by the Visegrad Group states (V4) – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. As these states are currently deemed to face democratic backsliding over thirty years after their own democratic transformations, the book discusses how democracy promotion is related to the four countries’ understanding of liberalism and democracy and to their political cultures. It also addresses the question of what motivates the V4 states to engage in the politically sensitive activities of democracy assistance and how they intend to share their own experience and know-how of the democratic transformation process. The book concludes by discussing the possible future developments in the respective states’ democracy promotion agendas. Examining the strategies, substance, and the domestic discourse related to the Visegrad states’ democracy promotion policies, the book presents a much-needed reflection on a niche subject in the foreign policy agendas of these post-communist states for academics and practitioners alike.

Author : Benedetta Berti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317502426
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratization in EU Foreign Policy written by Benedetta Berti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry. This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ changing the EU on crucial policy issues as part of the common foreign and security policy. Furthermore, it tracks the process whereby imported ideas and norms are recycled for further export ‘downstream’, and how these concepts are received in countries outside of the EU including the post-Soviet space, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa region and Central Asia. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratisation studies, European Union studies, comparative politics, international relations, international development, European politics, as well as area/regional studies.

Author : Seongcheol Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000425517
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse, Hegemony, and Populism in the Visegrád Four written by Seongcheol Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length account of populism in the Visegrád Four (V4) countries — Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia — for the first 30 years of multi-party competition since the transformative events of 1989–91 in Central and Eastern Europe. Advancing a post-foundational approach to populism based on a semi-formal reading of Ernesto Laclau's theory, the book undertakes a detailed examination of how the 'people' has been constructed in populist discourses in the party systems of the four countries since 1989. Drawing on a wealth of source material, the book offers both a wide-ranging and in-depth overview and classification of populism in the V4 in terms of discursive (e.g. centrist, conservative, left-wing, liberal, nationalist, social) and hegemonic type (e.g. authoritarian hegemonic, generational counter-hegemonic) alike. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of populism, party politics, and Central and Eastern Europe.

Author : Tom Hashimoto
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004352074
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reviewing European Union Accession written by Tom Hashimoto and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we celebrate the decade-long European integration in CEE, even though the ‘Brexit’ is knocking our door. What have we achieved? How is the acquis communautaire reflected on to the actual integration process(es)? Reviewing European Union Accession simulates the vast wave of EU enlargement experienced by the New Member States.

Author : José M. Magone
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788113187
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of European Union Democracy Promotion written by José M. Magone and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americanization of European Union Democracy Promotion: Ideology, Diversity, and United States Hegemony is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of the origins, development and growing prominence of international democracy promotion in the past hundred years.

Author : Anne Wetzel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317295390
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on the Substance of EU Democracy Promotion written by Anne Wetzel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the substance of European Union (EU) democracy promotion by comparing it with norms of governance that other international actors promote, among them the United Nations, the United States, the Central and East European EU member states, Russia, China and non-governmental organizations. It aims is to gain a better understanding of the EU’s democracy promotion agenda and to learn more about the (in)distinctiveness of the norms diffused by the EU. Building on a common conceptual chapter, the contributions follow different theoretical approaches and research designs, and focus on a diversity of case studies. The book concludes that in comparison with other international actors, the EU’s conceptual approach to democracy promotion is diffuse, which in turn makes the EU a particularly flexible but also ‘technical’ democracy promoter when it comes to implementation. At the same time, there are limits to flexibility at the level of concepts and frames. This indicates a distinct character of the substance of EU democracy promotion, which can be linked to the nature of the EU polity. This book was published as a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Author : Michael Emerson
Publisher : CEPS
ISBN 13 : 9290795921
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood written by Michael Emerson and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches democratization of the European neighbourhood from two sides, first exploring developments in the states themselves and then examining what the European Union has been doing to promote the process.

Author : Digdem Soyaltin-Colella
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031057813
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EU Good Governance Promotion in the Age of Democratic Decline written by Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union (EU) support for good governance reforms has been the cornerstone of its conditionality and funding policies and contributed its role as a transformative power. This book re-evaluates the EU’s governance promotion capacity both within the EU and beyond its borders in light of the simultaneous decline in democracy in Europe in particular, and across the whole world in general. The book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the EU’s good governance transfer to member and accession countries. Part II examines how and to what extent the EU’s governance promotion strategies travel beyond its borders and focuses on neighbours, partners, and aid recipient countries especially in Africa. Part III turns to other regional and global actors and discusses the implications of illiberal contesters such as China and Russia on the future of EU’s good governance promotion efforts. The findings of the book bring fresh insights for the scope and depth of the EU’s governance transfer capacity.

Author : Nicolas Bouchet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135011168
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Promotion as US Foreign Policy written by Nicolas Bouchet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War. The rise of democracy promotion originated in a long historical tradition that saw exporting American political values as instrumental in securing US security and economic interests, an idea which was expressed freely once Cold War strategic constraints disappeared. Under Bill Clinton, there was an explicit attempt to do so by reframing American strategy in terms of ‘democratic enlargement’ and this book assesses the strategic use of democracy promotion in US foreign policy and its different outcomes during his presidency. Offering a comprehensive, global review of American democracy engagement with different regions of the world and key countries during a whole presidency, this book assesses how far the US has benefited from democracy promotion. It evaluates the instrumental value of democracy promotion for America by seeing whether the Clinton administration’s efforts in this field, and their varying impacts to democratization abroad, were matched by progress in securing US strategic goals defined under enlargement, in particular reducing international conflicts and spreading economic liberalization around the world. The book explores how democracy became central to US post-Cold War strategy, how the Clinton administration developed the concept of democratic enlargement and tried to implement it, and why it remained influential on foreign policy throughout Clinton’s presidency. With an analysis of the legacy of Clinton’s democracy promotion and its relevance to the subsequent policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, this book is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Foreign Policy, American History and Security Studies.

Author : Maria Raquel Freire
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030929973
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership written by Maria Raquel Freire and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the literature on the EU’s role in the international system by engaging with the debates on global actorness and mapping new conceptual and theoretical avenues to better understand how agency and power are exerted at the global and regional levels, in a context of increased contestation of the international liberal order. Organised around three main lines, the book first looks at how the EU positions itself internationally in different policy areas, providing a multi-dimensional reading of EU policies, instruments, and practices; secondly, it engages with the EU’s own perspective toward its regional contexts and with the perspectives of regional actors on the EU; and, thirdly, it explores non-European perspectives on EU actorness, as the way the EU is perceived by others in this system of contested leadership is central to how it is understood in terms of policies, instruments, and overall capability to lead and act as a global power.