This book defines and examines the three principal strategies of EU democracy promotion in comparative analyses of Eastern European and Arab countries in its neighbourhood and thereby specifies the conditions under which EU democracy promotion is likely to be effective and how.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

1. EU democracy promotion in the neighbourhood: from leverage to governance? Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig 2. Political Conditionality and European Union's cultivation of democracy in Turkey Paul Kubicek 3. From Brussels with love: leverage, bemchmarking, and the action plans with Jordan and Tunisia in the EU's democratization policy Raffaella del Sarto and Tobias Schumacher 4. The EU's two-track approach to democracy promotion: the case of Ukraine Tom Casier 5. The promotion of participatory governance in the EU's external policies: compromised by sectoral economic interests? Anne Wetzel 6. Transgovernmental networks as catalysts for democratic change? EU functional cooperation with Arab authoritarian regimes and socialization of involved state officials into democratic governance Tina Freyburg 7. Democracy promotion through functional cooperation? The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy Tina Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel

Sandra Lavenex is Professor of International Politics at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland and is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.

Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.