Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315995 
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2019
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[Journal:] Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) [ISSN:] 2631-3561 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 20-37
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Emerald, Bingley
Abstract: 
Purpose - Is the need for stability pre-empting the need for democratic values? How can the EU cope with two contradictory security requirements: the need to promote democratic norms and to secure geostrategic interests? This paper takes on the security-democracy dilemma in a complex way that transcends the realpolitik frame overshadowing the analysis of the EU's policy orientation in the Southern Mediterranean while considering its normative role as a fig leaf for security interests. Design/methodology/approach - This paper investigates the EU's foreign policy orientation reflected in the ENP in terms of the two logics of action of consequentialism and appropriateness. Tracing changes at the policy level over time between 2011 and 2015, the paper zooms into the implementation of the "new" ENP in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia to highlight additional variation across countries. Findings - Building on a document analysis of the official declarations for the policy-making level and of ENP action plans for the implementation level, the paper argues that local political dynamics and the level of the EU's threat perception shape the EU's response to the partner countries.
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Arab spring
ENP
Democracy promotion
democracy-security dilemma
logic of action
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