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Institute for National Security Studies, University of Oxford
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In this chapter we provide an analysis of European Union (EU) narratives and policies with respect to mass mobilisations in Eastern Europe (EE) and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Specifically, the focus here is on the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ and the recent ‘EuroMaidan’ in Ukraine; as well as on the 2011 ‘J25’ Egyptian revolution and the later summer 2013 cycle of protests and violence following the ousting of President Mohammad Morsi. European Union and ‘EU3’ (French, German, British) perspectives and policies are compared to those of ‘new’ EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe, identifying and accounting for patterns of convergence and divergence.
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Berti, Benedetta and Onuch, Olga, From the Colour Revolutions to the Arab Awakening: EU Approaches to Democracy Promotion and the Rising Influence of CEE States (March 26, 2015). Berti, Mikulova, and Popescu. (2015). Democratization in EU Foreign Policy.