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Soğuk Savaş'ın sona ermesi ile birlikte uluslararası ilişkilerin güvenlik gündeminin değişmesi ile Avrupa Birliği (AB) 1990'ların sonundan itibaren demokrasiyi teşvik eden uluslararası bir aktör olarak evrilmiştir. AB, Avrupa Komşuluk Politikası'nda demokrasi teşvikini; Birlik normlarının, değerlerinin ve standartlarının komşu ülkelere aktarılması yoluyla güvenlik stratejisi temelinde ele almaktadır. AB'nin demokratikleşme süreçlerinin ülke içi dinamikler ile iç içe olduğunu kabul ettiği demokrasi teşviki politikalarının başarısı, üçüncü ülkelerin istek, irade ve yetkinliklerine bağımlı kalmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, AB'nin demokrasi anlayışı ve demokrasi teşviki politikası Komşuluk Politikası ve Ermenistan örneği üzerinden incelenmektedir. AB'nin Ermenistan ile kurumsal ilişkileri demokrasi teşviki bağlamında tarihsel olarak incelenmekte ve AB'nin koşulluluk ve sosyalleşme mekânizmalarına ne ölçüde başvurduğu analiz edilmektedir. Ermenistan'ın kurumsal yapısı, geleneksel yönetim anlayışı, sivil toplumun gelişmesinin önündeki engeller ve ülkedeki siyasi, iktisadi, sosyal ve askeri Rusya nüfuzu Ermenistan'da demokrasi teşviki sürecindeki AB etkisini belirleyici unsurlar olarak ele alınmaktadır. ; The European Union (EU) has evolved as an international democracy promoter actor since the 1990s as the security agenda of the international relations have changed with the end of the Cold War. The EU approaches its democracy promotion within the basis of its security strategy through the transfer of the EU norms, values and standards to neighbouring states in the European Neighbourhood Policy. The EU by admitting that the process of democratisation is intertwined with domestic contexts is dependent on third countries' desires, wills and competences for the success of its democracy promotion policies. This study analyses the EU's comprehension of democracy and democracy promotion policies within the context of the Neighbourhood Policy and the case of Armenia. The EU's institutional relations with Armenia are analyzed historically on the basis of its democracy promotion and the extent that the EU adheres to the mechanisms of conditionality and socialization is evaluated. Armenia's institutional structure, its traditional administration approach, impediments for the development of civil society and Russian political, economic, social and military dominance in Armenia are discussed as determining factors for the EU's impact on Armenia's democracy promotion process.

Since the Syrian crisis, migration has emerged as a rising and permanent discussion ofEuropean politics that has both created diversity and caused obstacles in the attitudes and policyorientations across the member states. In addition, the migrant crisis opened a space for Euroscepticactors to exploit it as an issue for politicization and securitization. Eurosceptic discourse has framedthe migrant crisis as a threat to national, economic, cultural and internal security, bringing itssecuritization aspect into question. In this respect, new security measures, such as border controlsand detention, and a discourse that employs anti-migration themes have become visible in manymember states. The focus of this study is to analyse Hungary's overall position and policy orientationstowards the crisis in order to deconstruct its main messages, identify the interlocutors and the reasonsbehind particular perspectives. In this descriptive content analysis, more than 160 official documentshave been thoroughly examined. It was observed that in opposition to the European migrationgovernance, Hungary has gone through a securitizing discourse as the first theme. The second themeis that due to Brussels' policy preferences, which are characterized to be anti-democratic andunlawful, and believed to have created a civilization disaster, Budapest has exhibited a Euroscepticstance. Hungary's overall position and policy orientations towards the migrant crisis are concludedto be the combination of securitization and Euroscepticism. Accordingly in the last theme, Hungary'sproposed solution to the migrant crisis, which was framed as a threat, is 'stopping' it by initiatingnew security measures.