ABSTRACT
The European Union has been a key actor in promoting democratization and providing assistance to encourage political change. This book assesses the EU's contribution to democratization by looking at the failures and states that offered resistance to EU pressure to reform, aiming to understand how the EU overcame or failed to overcome the numerous barriers blocking democratic progress. The book features studies on Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Ukraine, Morocco and Latvia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |29 pages
International norms, the European Union, and democratization
Tentative theory and Evidence
chapter |21 pages
The politics of conditionality
The European Union and human rights reform in Turkey
chapter |18 pages
The European Union and Croatia
Negotiating “Europeanization” amid national, regional, and international interests
