The EU as an External Democracy Promoter: East and Central Europe (incl. former Soviet Union), the Mediterranean, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Pacific (ACP) in Comparison

Internationale Konferenz des Arbeitskreises Europäische Integration (AEI) und der Technischen Universität Darmstadt mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und des CONNEX-Exzellenznetzwerks

Wissenschaftliche Leitung:
Prof. Dr. Michèle KNODT, Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Annette JÜNEMANN, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg

Ort: Darmstadt

Datum: 18./19. November 2005

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Thema der Tagung

As one aspect of its external relations the EU exports its values and its own view of legitimate democratic governance to third countries and acts there as an external promoter of democracy. In doing so, the EU utilizes various instruments. The central hypothesis of the conference focuses on the process of choosing these instruments: Why the EU chooses different instruments in different countries? What are the explanatory variables for this choice? Three factors are assumed to be relevant: the EU's potential to act, the structure of resonance in third countries (Drittstaaten) and the resource relation between the EU and the third country. As a contextual variable the international environment is conceptionalized as changes in the international system and/or competition with other states or international organizations. As there is no comparative research on this research question the conference is planed to generate hypothesis and a first comparative overview. Nevertheless, some general hypothesis will be formulated in advance to provoke a common discussion about explanations on the choice of instruments by the EU. The conference is innovative because it will bring together researchers specializing in particular countries or regions as well as in the realm of transformation and democratization studies as well as EU integration specialists under one research questions.

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Programm

Welcome and introduction: Conceptualising the EU's Promotion of Democracy
Prof. Dr. Michèle KNODT
Prof. Dr. Annette JÜNEMANN

I. Africa

Challenging cases: EU democracy promotion in South Africa and the DR Congo
Prof. Dr. Siegmar SCHMIDT, Universität Landau

Democracy Promotion of the EU and France in Westafrica: Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso
Prof. Dr. Stefan BRÜNE, Deutsches Übersee-Institut (DUI), Hamburg

Evaluating EU Democracy Promotion in Ghana
Dr. Gordon CRAWFORD, University of Leeds

II. East and Central Europe (incl. former Soviet Union)

EU Democracy Promotion in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova
Dr. Iris KEMPE, Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung (CAP), München

The Role of Civil Society in Promoting Democracy: West-Balkan and the Baltics in Comparison
Dr. Susan STEWART, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, Universität Mannheim

The Role of the Promotion of Democracy in the New Neighbourhood Policy
Dr. Arkady MOSHES, Finish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Helsinki

EU-Russia: A Special Relationship?
Dr. Katrin BASTIAN, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

III. Latin America and the Caribbean

Europe-Latin American City Networks. Building a Strategy from Below
Rainer ROTHFUSS, Universität Tübingen

EU-Latin America relationship: The Examples of Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela
Dr. Susanne GRATIUS, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin; Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), Madrid

IV. Asia

EU Democratisation Policy in Afghanistan
Dr. Florian P. KÜHN, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg

Democracy Promotion of the EU in Myanmar/Burma and China
Dr. Franco ALGIERI, CAP, München

V. The Mediterranean and Arab world

Explaining the Incoherence of EU-Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean. A Constructivist Approach that draws on Role Theory
Prof. Dr. Annette JÜNEMANN

The European Union as a Promoter of Democracy in a Conflict Ridden Sub-Region: The Case of the Middle East
Dr. Richard YOUNGS, FRIDE, Madrid

EU Promotion of Human Rights in the Mediterranean – a Practitioner's View
Dr. Marc SCHADE-POULSEN, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Copenhagen

Pre-Accession and Neighbourhood: European Union Democratic Conditionality
Elena BARACANI, Università degli studi di Firenze

Summing up of the Conference: First Comparative Results and Revised Hypotheses
Prof. Dr. Annette JÜNEMANN
Prof. Dr. Michèle KNODT

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