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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458876203321

Autore

Powel Brieg

Titolo

Europe and Tunisia : democratisation via association / / Brieg Powel and Larbi Sadiki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-99439-4

1-282-58959-8

9786612589591

0-203-85498-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics

Altri autori (Persone)

SadikiLarbi

Disciplina

320.9611

Soggetti

Democratization - Tunisia

Electronic books.

Tunisia Foreign relations European Union countries

Tunisia Politics and government

European Union countries Foreign relations Tunisia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Association via democratisation? Democratisation via association?; 2 Tunisia and Europe: The dialectics of association and reform from Khayr al-Din to Bin Ali; 3 Forging the association: The evolution of EU democracy promotion in the Mediterranean; 4 Unfulfilled reform: Implementing democracy promotion in Tunisia; 5 Stability, democracy, or both?: EU indecision and Tunisian inaction; 6 The 'Second Republic' and citizenship in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy versus unity, 1987-2001

7 The 'Republic of Tomorrow': The twin quest for association and democratisation, 2002-20098 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia's specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy



promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia's specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and discip