assesses to what extent the EU succeeds to promote democracy in Egypt. Design/methodology/approach - The EU pursues its policy … democracy promotion that witnessed some successes but with extremely modest results in some areas compared to the costs of the …, and the EU has not an effective role in promoting democracy in Egypt. …

the security-democracy dilemma in a complex way that transcends the realpolitik frame overshadowing the analysis of the EU …

all donors promised to support democracy in MENA countries, none had a clear strategy for doing so via their development …

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

member nations have lost substantial political and economic independence (sovereignty) and democracy. Therefore, their … development. Democracy in member nations is formal rather than real. The present study focused on the EU's problems rather than … efforts on the pros and cons of the EU for Europe, democracy, the economy, and the world. …