Affiliation:
1. School of Transnational Governance, EUI Florence
2. University of Oxford Oxford
3. Carnegie Europe Brussels
4. Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick UK
Abstract
AbstractFor 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.
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Economics and Econometrics,General Business, Management and Accounting,Business and International Management
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