Michelle Pace is Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Fellow, POLSIS at the University of Birmingham. She is Principal Investigator on two large projects and has published widely on EU policies towards the wider Mediterranean.

Peter Seeberg is Associate Professor, Ph.D. Director of Studies at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He has published on the EU and the Middle East, Arabic nationalism, migration issues and ethnic minorities in Europe and Denmark.

The book discusses the attempts by the EU at encouraging democracy in the Mediterranean region, but rather than concentrating on the relations between the incumbent authoritarian regimes and the opposition in the relevant countries, this collection of articles inverts the focus and attempts to look at them 'inside-out'.

This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.

1. Preface Michelle Pace 2. Introduction: The EU's Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach Michelle Pace, Francesco Cavatorta and Peter Seeberg 3. Political Islam in the Mediterranean: The View from Democratization Studies Frederic Volpi 4. Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean: The Limits of EU Normative Power Michelle Pace 5. Hamas in Transition: The Failure of Sanctions Are Hovdenak 6. The EU as a Realist Actor in Normative Clothes: EU Democracy Promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy Peter Seeberg 7. Constraints on the Promotion of the Rule of Law in Egypt: Insights from the 2005 Judges' Revolt Sarah Wolff 8. Egypt's Moment of Reform and its Reform Actors: The Variety-Capability Gap Thomas Demmelhuber 9. 'Divided they stand, divided they fail': Opposition Politics in Morocco Francesco Cavatorta 10. Islamist Moderation Without Democratization: The Coming of Age of the Moroccan Party of Justice and Development? Eva Wegner and Miquel Pellicer 11. Promoting Democracy in Algeria: The EU Factor and the Preferences of the Political Elite Ayse Aslihan Çelenk 12. A Clash of Norms: Normative Power and EU Democracy Promotion in Tunisia Brieg Tomos Powel