Democratization in EU Foreign Policy. New Member States as Drivers of Democracy Promotion

Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

Part I | Theory and Overview

Ch 1: Introduction
Kristina Mikulova and Nicu Popescu

Ch 2: Trade, Freedom or Trading Freedom? How Strategic and Normative Interests Shape Foreign Policy and Democracy Assistance in Central and Eastern Europe
Tsveta Petrova and Michal Simecka

Part 2 | CEE and the EU

Ch 3: CEE Transition Experience in EU Development Policy: Democratization of Europe’s Development Agenda
Simon Lightfoot and Balázs Szent Iványi

Ch 4: Central and East European EU Member States’ Impact on the EU’s Democracy Promotion Policy Towards Central Asia
Fabienne Bossuyt

Ch 5: From the 'Coloured Revolutions' in the Post-Soviet Space to the Arab Awakening: EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion and the Rising Influence of CEE States
Benedetta Berti and Ola Onuch

Ch 6: The European Endowment for Democracy: a case of 'Central Europeanization' of EU democratization policies?
David Cadier and Kristina Mikulova

Part 3 | Case studies of Democracy Assistance in Third Countries

Ch 7: Exporting Post-Communist Experience Eastwards: The Case of Post-Soviet Defence and Local Government Reform
Michal Simecka

Ch 8: Converts to Missionaries: Central and East European Democracy Assistance in the Arab World
Benedetta Berti and Kristina Mikulova

Ch 9: Subtle Europeanizers: Czech and Slovak Support for the European Integration of the Western Balkans
Jessie Hronesova

Ch 10: Conclusion
Benedetta Berti and Nicu Popescu