On EU–Arab democratisation*

Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla

doi:10.4324/9780429317873-27

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“…Questioning the lenses through which EU studies have been operating, this literature argues that the EU's relations with the rest of the world cannot be understood short of engaging with its members' colonial legacies and the echoes these produce in relations with external partners. Whilst pointing at the Eurocentrism of EU foreign policies and EU scholarship, these authors underline the partner countries' agency in their relations with the EU (i.a., Bechev and Nicolaïdis, 2010;Bhambra, 2022;Fisher-Onar and Nicolaïdis, 2013;Keukeleire and Lecocq, 2018;Sadiki and Saleh, 2021;Staeger, 2016Staeger, , 2023Táíwò, 2022). The gradual decentring in EU studies and the greater attention to external actors yield a new research field, whichfollowing up to the 'inside-in' and the 'inside-out' perspectivesexamines EU developments from the 'outside-in'.…”

Section: From Eu Studies Inside-out To the Outside-inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Lavenex¹,

Öberg

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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This introductory article conceptualizes the notion of third country influence on European Union (EU) law and policy and proposes an analytical framework theorizing the venues and means through which third countries may gain such impact, under what conditions and with which implications for the EU's legal and political order. The article first introduces the focus on outside‐in influence in the context of European studies, generally, and EU privileged third country relations, specifically. Thereafter, an analytical framework is developed for mapping and explaining the outside‐in dynamics on EU law and policy‐making differentiating between diplomatic, governance and discursive venues; coercive versus technocratic and normative mechanisms of influence; and the legal constraints and political implications of these processes. Turning to the potential determinants of these occurrences, the article then proposes a set of hypotheses for conditions under which third countries can influence EU law and policies, before summarizing the individual contributions to this Special Issue.

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Section: From Eu Studies Inside-out To the Outside-inmentioning

confidence: 99%

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Lavenex¹,

Öberg

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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“…What possibilities exist for the general conceptual call for mutuality to be given concrete policy form? Some in the EU have begun to express interest in two‐way mutual learning on democracy across the divide between Western and non‐Western powers and between traditional donors and recipients (Carothers and Brown, 2021; Sadiki and Saleh, 2022). A small number of policy initiatives at the global level are moving in this direction inspired in part by the Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 16 for the ‘promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies’.…”

Section: Can the Eu Import Democratic Experiences?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reversing the Gaze: Can the EU Import Democracy from Others?

Nicolaïdis

Youngs

2023

J of Common Market Studies

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For over two decades, the EU has used a wide range of policy instruments to support democratic reform in third countries under the assumption that the rest of the world must learn from Europeans. This one‐way democracy policy is out of tune with the times as political malaise spreads within the EU and as global geopolitics calls for genuine decolonial mindsets. In this contribution, we ask what it would take for the EU to reverse the democratic gaze. We argue that the EU could do more to open itself to the democratic innovations unfolding around the world where reformers have long been grappling with anti‐democratic playbooks. We distinguish between three relevant realms, namely, that of power‐sharing arrangements, democratic backsliding and regional mechanisms. We hope to offer a significant tweak to decolonization analysis and a political, normative supplement to this Special Issue's concern with outside influences on the EU.

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“…From a complexity-perspective, change, while invisible, is nevertheless now irreversible: it has challenged the power of the incumbent through a relational mesh of "the human community" who disagreed with and disputed the actions of Lukashenko via lasting protests and democratic leadership abroad, making his claims to power untenable and his institutional enforcement and proposals for constitutional change irrelevant. Through multiple feedback loops (Sadiki and Saleh 2021) such as the rise of peoplehood, the emergence of strong people networks of support inside the country, and external leverage through sanctions and media, the processes that are now unfolding internally have opened a pandora's box of "the political" as a fiercely contested space of ideas and visions for the future. The question of what kind of new social domain should emerge in the process of transformation is being debated.…”

Section: "The Political"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…From a complexity-thinking perspective, it is actually “the human community,” in which he is a temporal manifestation of the relational mesh that comes to form, and transform, the existing power dynamics in many unpredictable ways. What may seem orderly and stable today becomes volatile and crisis-ridden tomorrow because, like in any complex open system, which is always in flux, what defines (but rarely reaches) the equilibrium is a process of emergence and self-organization of human force and their relational universe – or what Sadiki and Saleh (2021, 15) refer to as “ruly (civil) and unruly (violent) permutations of popular mobilization” in response to unsatisfactory power dynamics. This entanglement or mesh of relations – with/by the people and their rulers – is what makes power reciprocal and progressive if legitimated, or unilateral and eventually perilous if the consensus is broken or withdrawn.…”

Section: Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus

Korosteleva

Petrova

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The many recent crises in Belarus are often seen through the prism of democratization, post-communist transition, and nation- and identity-building. As a rule, it is put into the context of the 1989 democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and compared with similar societal mobilization in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004; 2014), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). This article, however, argues that while these theoretical approaches provide an important explanatory potential, they nevertheless fail to account for informal, hidden, and unstable processes presently unfolding in the Belarusian society, leading to profound change. We argue that, in the vulnerable, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world of today, our knowledge and ability to plan and achieve desirable outcomes are limited in contrast to a largely positivist or interpretivist epistemology of the mainstream theories, which conceive of the world as a closed system. In this article, we offer an alternative explanation of the many crises in Belarus by drawing on the insights of complexity-thinking to suggest that (hidden) transformative change in the country is now irreversible.

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On EU–Arab democratisation*

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Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene

Reversing the Gaze: Can the EU Import Democracy from Others?

Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus

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