The paper analyzes the work of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) from its founding in 1992 to the present … they influence levels of democratization in recipient states. The unidirectional dimension of whether democracy aid works … looks only at the conditions in the consolidating democracy. A multi-dimensional approach would consider donor countries …

goals of the EU-Africa development cooperation, the problems and difficulties it encountered, and its achievements since its … development cooperation to political and security goals have led to a growing politicisation of the EU-Africa partnership. However …-liberal economic reforms on the one side and the support for human rights, democracy and security in Africa on the other side …

the specific field of human rights and democracy promotion in the current changing global order. It examines recent … rights and democracy in the current multi-polar order …

conflict between market and democracy, (3) to describe the evolution of NGOs in the EU and their legitimacy to represent the … Union (EU), as being participants of the institutionalization of regional links between states, on mitigating the deficiency … of democracy. In order to achieve the aim, the following research objectives are set: (1) to identify the factors leading …

key debates in the EU foreign policy literature. Partly this stems from the ‘low politics’ nature of development … cooperation, when set against the ‘high politics’ of EU external relations as typified by CFSP/CSDP and trade. This article … combines a legal analysis of the EP’s post-Lisbon powers in EU development cooperation with an examination of the Multiannual …

In their assessment of the proposed European Endowment for Democracy (EED), Hrant Kostanyan and Magdalena Nasieniak … conclude that an instrument along the lines currently envisaged could and should take on the challenge to make the EU a truly … committed, pro-active and effective leader of democracy assistance. A flexible and fast-track path of assessing needs and …