ABOUT BOOK

"The European Union’s (EU) impact on the political governance of ~the European neighbourhood is varied and sometimes opposite to ~the declared objectives of its democracy support policies. The ~democracy promotion literature has to a large extent neglected ~the unintended consequences of EU democracy support in Eastern ~Europe and the Middle East and North Africa. The EU has left ~multiple imprints on the political trajectories of the countries in ~the neighbourhood and yet the dominant explanation, highlighting ~the EU’s security and economic interests in the two regions, ~cannot fully account for the unintended consequences of its policies. ~The literature on the ‘pathologies’ of international organisations ~offers an explanation, emphasizing the failures of the EU ~bureaucracy to anticipate, prevent or reverse the undesired effects ~of its democracy support in the neighbourhood."