This path-breaking collection analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional
innovations intended to inscribe corporate power and market disciplines in world order, and …

Reactions to the promotion of human rights norms in post-conflict countries often clash with
central assumptions of established theoretical approaches to norm diffusion. Socialization …

Democracy assistance has increasingly featured in the foreign policy discourse of the
European Union toward the Mediterranean. This article overviews three of its key aspects …

In recent years there has been growing interest and a related literature on hybrid regimes. Is
there a good definition of such an institutional arrangement? Are there actually sets of …

Three decades since the beginning of democratization processes, the Western Balkan
countries have built a democratic façade by holding elections, by promulgating legal acts …

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU
enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region …

This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War
was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central …

Has the last tide of democratization been replaced by a new wave of democratic reversal?
Do two decades of international democracy promotion now have to compete with the …

This volume focuses on a highly challenging aspect of all European democracies, namely
the issue of combining guarantees of judicial independence and mechanisms of judicial …

Investigating the transformation of the Kurdish liberation movement in Iraq this book
explores its development from an armed guerrilla movement, engaged in a war for liberation …