EMBRACing changE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood

拥抱变革：克服欧洲邻国的障碍并推进民主

• 批准号: 10040966
• 金额: $ 23.62万
• 依托单位: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040966
• 关键词: EMBRACing; changE; Overcoming; obstacles; advancing

EMBRACE analyses blockages to democratisation in the European neighbourhood, identifies ways to overcome them and suggests new policy tools for EU democracy promotion (EUDP). EMBRACE takes stock of developments in democracy-building, assessing EUDP instruments, ambitions and concepts. EMBRACE investigates episodes of political deadlock and opening to identify, analyse and explain behavioural, institutional and structural blockages, and the conditions under which they can be overcome. EMBRACE is sensitive to variation in democratisation trajectories, and the cultural, historical, and geopolitical context in which blockages emerge. It also keeps an eye on the blockages from within the EU. EMBRACE surveys the local needs for an improved EUDP and develops new policy tools (e.g. digital platform, EUDP mapping tool, EUDP best-practices collection, policy papers, video clips, podcasts, training webinars) for EUDP practitioners and pro-democracy activists. EMBRACE’s approach to empirical research combines a quantitative large-n with a qualitative middle-n comparative research strategy. Quantitatively, EMBRACE analyses the larger trends of EUDP and its effects on democratisation over the last two decades in all 23 neighbours. Qualitatively, EMBRACE investigates episodes of deadlock and opening from 12 selected countries in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus, Western Balkans, Northern Africa and the Middle East. Intraand cross-regional comparison is systematically included in EMBRACE’s research design and WP structure. For data collection and analysis, consortium partners located in EU- and in non-EU countries team up. Six stakeholder committees monitor the entire research process assuring that local needs and narratives are considered. In doing so, EMBRACE provides the EU with in-depth knowledge and an innovative policy toolkit enhancing partnerships for a stable and secure European neighbourhood, and incentivising resilient political actors to embrace democratic change.

拥抱分析了欧洲邻国民主化的障碍，确定了克服这些障碍的方法，并为欧盟民主促进（EUDP）提出了新的政策工具。EMBRACE评估了民主建设方面的发展，评估了欧洲民主联盟的工具、目标和概念。拥抱调查政治僵局和开放的事件，以识别，分析和解释行为，制度和结构性障碍，以及它们可以克服的条件。EMBRACE对民主化轨迹的变化，以及出现障碍的文化、历史和地缘政治背景都很敏感。它还密切关注来自欧盟内部的封锁。EMBRACE调查当地对改进EUDP的需求，并为EUDP实践者和民主活动家开发新的政策工具（例如数字平台，EUDP地图工具，EUDP最佳实践集合，政策文件，视频剪辑，播客，培训网络研讨会）。EMBRACE的实证研究方法结合了定量的大n和定性的中n比较研究策略。在数量上，EMBRACE分析了过去二十年中欧盟的大趋势及其对所有23个邻国民主化的影响。从质量上讲，EMBRACE调查了东欧、南高加索、西巴尔干、北非和中东的12个选定国家的僵局和开放事件。在EMBRACE的研究设计和WP结构中系统地包含了内部和跨区域的比较。在数据收集和分析方面，位于欧盟和非欧盟国家的合作伙伴组成了团队。六个利益相关者委员会监督整个研究过程，确保考虑到当地的需求和叙述。在此过程中，EMBRACE为欧盟提供了深入的知识和创新的政策工具包，加强了建立稳定和安全的欧洲邻国的伙伴关系，并激励有弹性的政治行动者接受民主变革。