"This publication is unique not only on a national but also international scale. It concerns the subject of the European Union's relations with Egypt after 2011

This book investigates the disparity between rhetoric and performance in the European Union response to abuses of human rights and transgression of democracy. W

Originally published: London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2014.

With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism have combine

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on ‘linkage’, i.e. bottom-up support for democratic forces in third countries, and ‘leverage�