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Richard Youngs examines the policy challenges and choices now facing Europe in the wake of Russia's war with Ukaraine.

Richard Youngs examines the policy challenges and choices now facing Europe in the wake of Russia's war with Ukaraine.

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This book adds to debates over the international dimensions of democratic change by studying the policies and actions of three sets of Western actors: namely, governments, multinational companies, and international NGOs. This actor-based triangular approach responds to observations that thestrategic, economic, and social aspects of international democracy have rarely been studied in a combined, holistic fashion. During the 1990s, Western gover...

In recent years serious concerns have emerged over the state of European democracy. Richard Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political parties, citizens and civil society organizations have gradually begun to push back in defence of democracy. This book argues that the pro-democratic fightback may be belated, but it is real and has assumed significant traction with various types of democratic reform underway, including citizen ...

In recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades. Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts, journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe desc...

This accessible new textbook situates the European Union in a dramatically changed world order. Resisting a more traditional and abstract introduction to the institutions, structures and policy making processes of the EU, this innovative new text cuts through the jargon to demonstrate how hard the EU must work to retain its international influence. Taking into account the latest empirical developments, including the spread of war and violence ...

This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the Mediterranean, addressing theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor. The factors driving and inhibiting European democracy promotion policies are explored, and the EU's distinctive "bottom-up" approach to political change is outlined. The book notes an evolut...

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This book collects some of the most important articles from the Mediterranean Politics journal in the last twenty years, and suggests how they shed light on the policy and analytical challenges that lie ahead in Euro-Mediterranean relations.

In the wake of September 11, the European Union proclaimed a commitment to encouraging processes of political liberalization in the Middle East. This work offers an analysis of the policies actually followed by the EU in the intervening several years. It assesses EU policies implemented throughout the Middle East.

This book charts the EU¿s response to the challenge of energy security with a focus on the foreign policy dimensions and examines how the EU¿s approach to energy security is played out in different producer countries and regions.

Argues that in a range of policy areas - trade, multilateral diplomacy, security, development cooperation, democracy and human rights, energy security - the EU appears to be in retreat from liberal internationalism.

Since the economic recession of 2008, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about the need to reform the whole model of European integration, with the aim of making the union more flexible and more accountable. In this book, Richard Youngs proposes an alternative vision of European co-operation and shows how the...

This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the Mediterranean, addressing theoretical debates over the international dimensions of political change and the EU's characteristics as an international actor. The factors driving and inhibiting European democracy promotion policies are explored, and the EU's distinctive "bottom-up" approach to political change is outlined. The book notes an evolut...

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A bold analysis of the problem of the decline of the EU and a brilliant proposal for a remedy.

Richard Youngs argues that in a range of policy areas - trade, multilateral diplomacy, security, development cooperation, democracy and human rights, energy security - the EU appears to be in retreat from liberal internationalism.