Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia
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Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia. / van Hüllen, Vera.
In: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Vol. 2, No. 5, 2017, p. 637-657.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia
AU - van Hüllen, Vera
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Adopting a perspective of resistance and appropriation on the ‘agency of the governed’, this article brings together the study of international cooperation with approaches borrowed from social anthropology in order to analyse the responses of Moroccan and Tunisian government officials to EU democracy promotion before and after the Arab uprisings of 2011. The comparison across countries and over time highlights how ‘subversive’ appropriation as ‘hidden’ resistance enables authoritarian regimes to deflect external demands while reaping the benefits of cooperation. It thus sheds light on the agency of ‘recipients’ of international democracy promotion efforts and their ability to shape the process and outcome of ‘transfer’ already at the level of intergovernmental relations.
AB - Adopting a perspective of resistance and appropriation on the ‘agency of the governed’, this article brings together the study of international cooperation with approaches borrowed from social anthropology in order to analyse the responses of Moroccan and Tunisian government officials to EU democracy promotion before and after the Arab uprisings of 2011. The comparison across countries and over time highlights how ‘subversive’ appropriation as ‘hidden’ resistance enables authoritarian regimes to deflect external demands while reaping the benefits of cooperation. It thus sheds light on the agency of ‘recipients’ of international democracy promotion efforts and their ability to shape the process and outcome of ‘transfer’ already at the level of intergovernmental relations.
KW - Politics
KW - democracy promotion
KW - resistance
KW - appropriation
KW - EU
KW - Morocco
KW - Tunisia
KW - North Africa
KW - Arab Spring
U2 - 10.1080/23802014.2018.1472036
DO - 10.1080/23802014.2018.1472036
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 2
SP - 637
EP - 657
JO - Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal
JF - Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal
SN - 2380-2014
IS - 5
ER -