The European Union as Promoter of Democracy

Download or read book The European Union as Promoter of Democracy written by Johannes Wiedemann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,3, University of Flensburg (International Institute for Management), course: External Relations of the European Union, language: English, abstract: In this paper the guiding questions were the following: What Is the EU concept of democracy? Can this supposedly universal norm be promoted by and with the EU external governance scheme? What means are in stock? What has been used? What is used? What are the results? What can be, what has to be changed? A working definition of democracy is the scale of success which can be applied to the objectives and means in the European Union's ‘foreign policy’. The strategies are depicted as well as the level of ambition in democracy promotion of the European Union. The means to realize this ambition are be shown in comparison to the the successes or failures in application. The conflict of priorities in the European Union concerning external relations of the last thirty years is depicted against the backcloth of the normative set of standards drawn from the treaty.