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This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia's specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia's specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity - and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union's Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.

This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia's specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia's specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity - and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union's Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.

Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Theorising Commission autonomy and Council control: Motive, means, and opportunity -- Chapter 2 The process and patterns of trade agreements -- Chapter 3 The Commercial Cooperation Agreement with India (1970-1973) -- Chapter 4 The trade agreement with China (1975-1978) -- Chapter 5 The Commercial and Economic Cooperation Agreement with India (1978-1981) -- Chapter 6 The Cooperation Agreement on Partnership and Development with India (1992-1993) -- Chapter 7 The Association Agreement with Chile (1998-2002) -- Chapter 8 The Economic Partnership Agreement with CARIFORUM (2002-2007) -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Index.

Chapter 1. Intoroduction /Lorenzmaier) -- Part A: Evolution and Current Challenges of the External Action of the Union: From Shared Competences to Shared Values -- Chapter 2. New Challenges for The Union's Treaty Making Powers and Common Values in Implementing Its Agreements (Müller-Graff) -- Chapter 3. From ERTA to Singapore - and Beyond (Vedder) -- Chapter 4. Exclusive and Shared Competences after the Singapore Opinion of the European Court of Justice - 2/15 Revisited (Lorenzmaier) -- Chapter 5. Mixed Agreements after ECJ-Opinion 2/15 on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (Kumin) -- Chapter 6. The EU-Swiss Sectoral Approach Under Pressure – Not Least Because of Brexit (Tobler) -- Chapter 7. The Ratification Saga of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Some Lessons for the Practice of Mixed Agreements (van Elsuwege) -- Part B: EU Cooperation with its Eastern Neighborhood and Eurasia: Shared Values v. Closer/Remote Integration -- Chapter 8. Challenges of EU-Ukraine AA's Effective Implementation into the legal order of Ukraine (Petrov) -- Chapter 9. Impact of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement on the Legal Order of Georgia (Gabrichidze) -- Chapter 10. Principles and Values of Fair Competition in the EU and its Association Agreements with Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia (Smyrnova) -- Chapter 11. The EU-Kazakhstan Enhanced Partnership: An Overview and Evaluation (Kembayev) -- Chapter 12. - EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement: A New Instrument of Promoting EU's Values and General Principles of EU Law (Khvorostiankina) -- Chapter 13. Pork, Peace and Principles: The Relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union (Dragneva) -- Chapter 14. The EU and Russia: Old Legal Grounds for New "Selected Engagement" Relations (Kalinichenko) -- Chapter 15. The EU and Belarus. Current and Future Contractual Relations (Karliuk) -- Chapter 16. Conclusion (Lorenzmaier/Petrov).

The FTAA and US strategy : a southern point of view / Paulo Vizentini -- The US, the FTAA, and the parameters of global governance / Dorval Brunelle -- Through the looking glass : a Canadian perspective on the NAFTA as a forerunner to the FTAA / Marc Lee -- The puzzle of institutionalizing a free market continental zone : the nuts and bolts of the FTAA / Michel Duquette and Maxime Rondeau -- The forgotten society : lack of transparency and democracy / Marianne L. Wiesebron -- Social and economic rights within the context of the FTAA / Jorge Witker -- Brazil, Mercosur, the FTAA and Europe / Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães -- Brazil's strategy toward the FTAA / Jan van Rompay -- FTAA : implications for the world trade system / Pitou van Dijck -- The FTAA versus the EU Association agreements / Willy J. Stevens -- The impact of the FTAA on Japan and China / Kurt W. Radtke -- China's reaction and strategy towards the creation of the FTAA / Yang Zerui -- Effects of the FTAA on Japan / Mitsuhiro Kagami.