Europeanisation through Cooperation? EU Democracy Promotion in Morocco and Tunisia

Hüllen, Vera van

doi:10.1080/01402382.2012.631317

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“…The Tunisian case highlights the ambivalent effect of statehood on the ability and willingness of authoritarian regimes to engage in the implementation of international democracy promotion efforts, and the limited role of interdependence (van Hüllen 2012(van Hüllen , 2013. Higher levels of state capacity and stability do not necessarily have a positive effect on the willingness of authoritarian regimes to cooperate, if the dynamics of political liberalization are not part of their survival strategy.…”

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EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring

Hüllen¹

2015

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This ground-breaking monograph series showcases cutting-edge research on the transformation of governance in countries with weak state institutions. Combining theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship, it challenges the conventional governance discourse which is biased towards modern developed nation-states. Instead, the series focuses on governance in Africa, Asia, and Latin America including transnational and transregional dimensions.Located at the intersection of global governance and international relations, on the one hand, and comparative politics, area studies, international law, history, and development studies, on the other, this innovative series helps to challenge fundamental assumptions about governance in the social sciences.

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Section: Tunisiamentioning

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EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring

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2015

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“…However, the WGI for Government Effectiveness paints a more nuanced picture for the countries we are interested in, including Georgia, and whose values correspond more closely to the findings of our own qualitative research (cf. Börzel and Pamuk ; Börzel and van Hüllen ; van Hüllen ). Values range from −2.5 to 2.5.…”

Section: The Fight Against Corruption State‐building and Legitimacymentioning

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State‐Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus: Why Legitimacy Matters

Börzel

Hüllen

2014

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This article asks under which conditions the state‐building efforts of external actors in areas of limited statehood are likely to be effective. We argue that the legitimacy of the specific norms promoted by external actors among local actors is crucial for their success in strengthening state capacities. International efforts need to resonate with prevalent social norms. To substantiate this argument, we focus on the European Union's (EU) anticorruption programs and their implementation in one of the most corrupt regions in the world, the Southern Caucasus. We show that legitimacy can explain why the EU's fight against corruption helped reduce corruption in Georgia but not in Armenia. In both countries, political elites could selectively use anticorruption programs as an instrument against political opponents, using enhanced state capacities to stabilize the incumbent regime. Only in Georgia, however, was the fight against corruption facilitated by sustained domestic mobilization for anticorruption policies that added pressure on political elites “from below.”

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“…These networks are constituted by security practitioners from EU Member States and non‐members alike who deal predominantly with operational aspects of, for example, trafficking, border control or disaster management. As such, they serve as a ‘tool for “socializing” third countries into common European standards’ (Lavenex and Wichmann, , p. 98; Freyburg, ; Van Hüllen, ). Seen as part of a security community‐building process, these networks function in such a way that practitioners from non‐member states are exposed to the ways of doing things that are already established within the circle of EU Member States, while practically engaging in exchanges over how to deal with non‐military threats and transboundary risks.…”

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The European Union as Security Community‐Building Institution: Venues, Networks and Co‐operative Security Practices

Bremberg

2014

J of Common Market Studies

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How does the European Union promote security beyond its borders? This article answers this seemingly straightforward question by exploring how the EU works as security communitybuilding institution vis-à-vis non-members. Drawing upon practice theory in International Relations, the article unpacks the security community concept, focusing especially on the relation between co-operative security practices and the expansion of security communities. The article discusses how recent practice-inspired insights can be applied in empirical research to generate novel and interesting results of relevance for EU studies. It does so by recapitulating the main findings from a study on Spanish-Moroccan co-operation on civilian and military crisis management. The findings support the claim that common practice precedes collective identity in processes of security community-building in that the EU has helped bring together and perpetuate a community of security practitioners in the western Mediterranean that builds upon, as well as transcends, already existing bilateral relations.

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Europeanisation through Cooperation? EU Democracy Promotion in Morocco and Tunisia

Cited by 56 publications

References 24 publications

EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring

EU Democracy Promotion and the Arab Spring

State‐Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus: Why Legitimacy Matters

The European Union as Security Community‐Building Institution: Venues, Networks and Co‐operative Security Practices

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