This working paper provides an analysis of the efforts by the European Union to support democracy building in developing countries. It focuses on the specific question of the legal obligations of, and limits for, the European Union in seeking to further democracy through its policies directed at...

Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...

Introduction / Damien Kingsbury -- Reconceptualising development : the painful job of thinking / Andrew Hewett and Chris Roche -- The g7+ group of fragile states : towards improved international engagement / Simon Fenby -- After the washington consensus / John McKay -- Civil war and the limits...