Democracy Promotion By Functional Cooperation
Series
Routledge handbooks
ISBN
9781315691244
Type
book section
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Schumacher, Tobias
Marchetti, Andreas
Demmelhuber, Thomas
Abstract
In response to the regime breakdowns in some Arab countries, the European Commission suggested a ‘New Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean.’ When explaining this strategy in an article published in The New York Times on 25 February 2011, Catherine Ashton (2011), then High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, emphasised that the European Union (EU) is
determined to help Tunisia, Egypt and other countries not just to start their journey toward democracy, but to complete it […] That will involve detailed, unglamorous, work on the ground – with civil servants, local communities, the police, army and judiciary – laying the foundations of deep democracy and then building it up, brick-by-brick.
determined to help Tunisia, Egypt and other countries not just to start their journey toward democracy, but to complete it […] That will involve detailed, unglamorous, work on the ground – with civil servants, local communities, the police, army and judiciary – laying the foundations of deep democracy and then building it up, brick-by-brick.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SEPS - Global Democratic Governance
Book title
The Routledge handbook on the European neighbourhood policy
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher place
London
Start page
467
End page
480
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
254044