Internationalisation and Digitalisation in European Studies

Abstract

Research on the impact of international actors on political change in the European neighbourhood has focused predominately on the EU’s democracy support policies in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the United States’ (US) policies of selective engagement in both the European Union’s (EU) eastern and southern neighbourhood. The scholarship has mainly zoomed in on Western policies aimed at political transformation via offering external material incentives and empowering liberal reform coalitions, inter alia banking on the rational choice paradigm. Similarly, the role of illiberal powers in undermining democracy support or directly strengthening authoritarian rule has mirrored the examination of Western democracy support policies by emphasising the policies of rewards and punishments pursued by powerful autocracies.

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