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EMBRACing changE: Overcoming obstacles and advancing democracy in the European Neighbourhood

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (13)
Theory framework paper (opens in new window)
Policy Report on the effects of EUDP (opens in new window)
Working Paper on effective EUDP after popular uprisings (opens in new window)
Policy Report on EUDP in contexts of authoritarian and hybrid regimes (opens in new window)
Policy Report on EU support to democratic forces after popular uprisings (opens in new window)
Comparative synthesis paper (opens in new window)
Research Report on international intervention and the consolidation of democracy in post-conflict societies (opens in new window)
Policy Brief outlining projections for geopolitical competition to EUDP (opens in new window)
Working Paper on cultural factors of democratisation (opens in new window)
Scholarly article comparing EUDP in autocratic and hybrid regimes (opens in new window)
Policy Report on the emerging patterns of blockages and EU responses (opens in new window)
Monograph on blockages to peace (opens in new window)
Policy Report on the EU and its competition with other geopolitical players (opens in new window)
Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)
Toolkit for EU decision-makers on the geopolitics of EUDP (opens in new window)
Digital platform on democratisation-related skills (opens in new window)
Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)
Interactive mapping tool visualising project data and results (opens in new window)
Podcast series on projects results and mutual learning (opens in new window)
Project logo developed and public website online (opens in new window)

Publications

Other (26)
Making sense of Armenia’s turn to the West

Author(s): Luntumbue, V.; Luciani, L.
Publisher: REDEMOS

A Strategic Blueprint for a Dynamic EU Democracy Promotion Toolkit.

Author(s): Ioannides, I.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Rewriting the Codes of the Possible. Culture in Action and Semiotic Repertoires in Protests and Post-Protest Lebanon (2019-2021)

Author(s): Susanna i López, È.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Democracy and the effects of democracy promotion in the European Neighbourhood. Policy Brief 09

Author(s): Shyrokykh, K.; Grimm, S.; Solander, N.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

The Future of Palestinians A Year After the War: Double Standards in International Norms and the Stalemate of Democratic Transition. Working Paper 03.

Author(s): Rahal, O.; Al-Faqih, A.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Citizens Missing: Why Participation in EU Enlargement Matters Now More Than Ever

Author(s): Bosse, G.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Carnegie Europe

Pathways to Change: Analysing Democratic Transition Scenarios in Belarus under Regime Instability and Weakened Russian Influence

Author(s): Bosse, G.; van der Broek, W.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Contentious Politics after Popular Uprising: Assessing How EU Democracy Promotion Can Help Bottom-Up Actors Achieve Small-Scale Democratic Gains

Author(s): Rennick, S.; Jmal, N.; Vladisavljević, N.; Vranić, B.; Žilović, M.; Bosse, G.; van den Broek, W.; Azzam, L.; Dudouet, V.; Koval, D.; Aprasidze, D.; Paturyan, J.; Ghebouli, Z.L.; Armakolas, I.; Krstinovska, A.
Publisher: EMBRAEC Project

Policy report on emerging patterns of blockages to peace and democratisation. Deliverable 6.1. Published as: Emerging patterns of blockages to peace and democratisation. Policy Brief 01

Author(s): Pogodda, S.; Richmond, O.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

The geopolitics of EU democracy promotion 2030: Voices from the EU neighbourhood

Author(s): Ioannides, I.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Advancing Democratic Development in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes: The Need for Context-Aware EU Strategies

Author(s): Bosse, G.; van den Broek, W.; Abdallah, C.; Bossuyt, F.; Luciani, L.; Rennick, S.A.; Saadi, F.; Geha, C.; Vladisavljević, N.; Vranić, B.; Žilović, M.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Synthesis Report: Comparative findings on EU democracy promotion

Author(s): Grimm, S.; Stolzenberger, R.; Solander, N.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

The Impact of the Revolution of Dignity on Reforms in Ukraine: Case Studies of Judicial Reform and the Establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau

Author(s): Koval, D.; Latsyba, A.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

How Democracy Promoters Respond to Global Autocratisation (opens in new window)

Author(s): Grimm, S; Weiffen, B; Mross, K.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project & German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
DOI: 10.23661/IPB34.2025

Obstacles and Facilitators of EU democracy promotion. Policy Brief 08

Author(s): Grimm, S.; Shyrokykh, K.; Solander, N.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Nurturing Democracy in Exile. How Belarusian Pro-Democracy Forces are Defying Authoritarianism. Policy Brief 03

Author(s): Bosse, G.; van den Broek, W.; Abdallah, C.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

International Reinforcement of Segmented Authoritarianism: The Role of the European Union in Algeria. Policy Brief 10

Author(s): Boubekeur, A.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Saar Region Status Referendums and Post-War Ukraine. Is the “European Territory” Concept Relevant for Ukraine?

Author(s): Petrov, R.
Published in: ISSN 2702-9360
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL)

Geopolitics and the Convergence of Non-Democratization Interests in Algeria. Working Paper 04

Author(s): Rennick, S.A.; Jmal, N.; Ghebouli, Z.L.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

How to make civil society inclusion in inter-state peace mediation meaningful: Lessons from the Minsk Negotiation Process 2014-2021 (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tetiana Kyselova
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Folke Bernadotte Academy
DOI: 10.61880/DAJQ2447

Policy Report on the EU and its competition with other geopolitical players

Author(s): Bechev, D.; Armakolas, I.; Krstinovska, A.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Democracy Promotion in Lebanon: Policy Recommendations to the European Union for an improved Cooperation Model

Author(s): Azzam, L.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Theory Framework Paper

Author(s): Grimm, S; EMBRACE Consortium
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

How Democracy Assistance to Civil Society Can Help Secure Democratic Gains. Policy Brief 02

Author(s): Rennick, S.A.; Jmal, N.; Paturyan, J.; Vranić, B.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Georgia, EU, Russia and the Oligarch: Can the EU Untangle the Knot? Policy Brief 07

Author(s): Aprasidze, D.; Gvalia, G.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Gulf States and the Palestinian Cause: Geopolitical Shifts across the Two U.S. Presidencies

Author(s): Shaban, O.
Publisher: EMBRACE Project

Peer reviewed articles (24)
Downward spirals in EU democracy promotion: how contestations and shrinking spaces for civil society organization limit the EU’s influence in Turkey (opens in new window)

Author(s): Murat Coskun, Elena Dueck
Published in: Democratization, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2514767

Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sonja Grimm, Brigitte Weiffen, Karina Mross
Published in: Democratization, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2543778

All’s well that ends well: short story of Ukraine’s road towards European Union membership (opens in new window)

Author(s): Roman Petrov
Published in: Yearbook of European Law, Issue 43, 2024, ISSN 0263-3264
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/YEL/YEAE002

Review of International Studies (opens in new window)

Author(s): Pogdda, S., Richmond, O., Visoka, G.
Published in: Review of International Studies, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000377

Conditional Aid Under What Conditions? Exploring Consistency in Performance‐Based Aid Allocation (opens in new window)

Author(s): Karina Shyrokykh, Nea Solander
Published in: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JCMS.13727

Policy-learning in EU democracy support: strategic adaptation and (un)learning in the EU’s response to authoritarian consolidation in Belarus (opens in new window)

Author(s): Giselle Bosse
Published in: Democratization, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2484591

Christian Orthodoxy between Geopolitics and International Law. How the War in Ukraine Divided the Orthodox Church (opens in new window)

Author(s): Roman Petrov
Published in: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Issue 84, 2024, ISSN 0044-2348
Publisher: Verlag C.H.Beck oHG
DOI: 10.17104/0044-2348-2024-3-421

Rethinking Peace and Victory in Light of Russian Aggression in Ukraine (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tetiana Kyselova, Dana M. Landau
Published in: International Negotiation, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1382-340X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-BJA10125

Including Civil Society in Peace Negotiations: The War in the Ukraine Donbas Region (2014–21) (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tetiana Kyselova
Published in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1750-2977
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2364309

Civil society and anti-corruption reform in Georgia: revisiting the rose revolution (opens in new window)

Author(s): David Aprasidze
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1656511

Geopolitics, (In)security and Resilience. A Feminist Critique of the EU's Engagement in Armenia After the Second Nagorno‐Karabakh War (opens in new window)

Author(s): Laura Luciani
Published in: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JCMS.13761

Postkomunistička tranzicija Srbije u uporednom i istorijskom kontekstu (opens in new window)

Author(s): Marko Žilović
Published in: Političke perspektive, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2335-027X
Publisher: Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
DOI: 10.20901/PP.15.1.01

People won, now what? The role of civil society organizations in anti-corruption and judicial reform in post-uprising Armenia (2018–2025) (opens in new window)

Author(s): Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan, Liana Simonyan, Gor Papikyan
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1656829

The international dynamics of counter-peace (opens in new window)

Author(s): Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, Gëzim Visoka
Published in: European Journal of International Relations, Issue 30, 2023, ISSN 1354-0661
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13540661231168772

Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020 (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sonja Grimm, Karina Shyrokykh, Nea Solander
Published in: Comparative European Politics, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1472-4790
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/S41295-025-00430-X

Sexuality securitized: how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-)LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe (opens in new window)

Author(s): Laura Luciani, Maryna Shevtsova
Published in: Journal of Gender Studies, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 0958-9236
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2024.2427198

Counter-peace: From isolated blockages in peace processes to systemic patterns (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sandra Pogodda, Oliver P. Richmond, Gëzim Visoka
Published in: Review of International Studies, Issue 49, 2023, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000377

Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood (opens in new window)

Author(s): Nea Solander
Published in: Journal of European Integration, 2025, ISSN 0703-6337
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2025.2457014

The pain on the political battlefield—structuring the role of the media in protests triggered by mass murders in Serbia (opens in new window)

Author(s): Milica Jevtić
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1654950

Ukrainian Visions of Peace: (Re-)Shaping Peace through Victory (opens in new window)

Author(s): Tetiana Kyselova, Dana M. Landau
Published in: International Negotiation, Issue 30, 2025, ISSN 1382-340X
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-BJA10111

Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment (opens in new window)

Author(s): Richmond, Oliver; Pogodda, Sandra
Published in: Global Studies Quarterly, 2024, ISSN 2634-3797
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4818749

Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars (opens in new window)

Author(s): Sandra Pogodda
Published in: Contemporary Security Policy, 2025, ISSN 1743-8764
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2025.2460918

Transitional justice in Tunisia: a critical assessment of the External Actors’ Involvement (opens in new window)

Author(s): Nadia Jmal
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1656319

One tabloid to rule them all (opens in new window)

Author(s): Bojan Vranić, Milica Jevtić
Published in: Politička misao, Issue 61, 2024, ISSN 1846-8721
Publisher: Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
DOI: 10.20901/PM.61.4.01

Book chapters (13)
Ukraine’s democratic struggles and European Aspirations. The Influence of Russia, China, and Geopolitical Tensions Pre- and Post-2014

Author(s): Petrov, R.; Sniadanko, O.; Bidonko, K.
Publisher: Routledge

Conclusions

Author(s): Grimm, S.; Shyrokykh, K.; Dudouet, V.
Publisher: Routledge

Introduction

Author(s): Grimm, S.; Shyrokykh, K.; Dudouet, V.
Publisher: Routledge

The Post-Socialist Transition of Serbia: Economic Policy, Democracy, and European Integration

Author(s): Nebojša Vladisavljević
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

The European Union’s Democracy Promotion Policy Towards Its Neighbourhood. Aims, Ambitions and Instruments

Author(s): Grimm, S; Biedermann, S.; Solander, N.
Publisher: Routledge

Authoritarian Push-Back? Russia and China’s Impact on the EU Democracy Promotion in Geopolitical Battleground States

Author(s): Armakolas, I.; Bechev, D.; Krstinovska, A.
Publisher: Routledge

EUDP in Contested Authoritarian Contexts. Blockages and Catalysts for Democratic Change in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Serbia, and Lebanon

Author(s): Abdallah, C.; Bosse, G.; Bossuyt, F.; van den Broek, W.; Geha, C.; Luciani, L.; Rennick, S.; Saadi, F.; Vladisavljević, N.; Vranić, B.; Žilović, M.
Publisher: Routledge

Contentious Politics after Popular Uprisings. Assessing How EU Democracy Promotion Can Help Bottom-Up Actors Achieve Small-Scale Democratic Gains

Author(s): Rennick, S.; Jmal, N.; Vladisavljević, N.; Vranić, B.; Žilović, M.; Bosse, G.; van den Broek, W.; Azzam, L.; Dudouet, V.; Koval, D.; Aprasidze, D.; Paturyan, J.; Ghebouli, Z.; Armakolas, I., & Krstinovska, A.
Publisher: Routledge

European Integration, and Democracy and Human Rights Reforms in Ukraine in the Wartime (opens in new window)

Author(s): Karina Shyrokykh, Kateryna Busol, Dmytro Koval
Published in: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU, 2025
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69154-6_7

Gender and Democratisation. The Role of the EU

Author(s): Hülzer, J.; Dudouet, V.; Renoux, C.
Publisher: Routledge

Spatial Analysis of the Relationships Between Capital and People Mobility and Democratic Progress in the European Neighbourhood.

Author(s): Paül i Agustí, D.
Publisher: Routledge

Blockages and Catalysts for Effective Democracy Promotion in the European Neighbourhood

Author(s): Grimm, S.; Shyrokykh, K.
Publisher: Routledge

The Janus-Faced Character of State Capacity in the Context of EU Democracy Promotion

Author(s): Biedermann, S.; Köster, J.
Publisher: Routledge

Monographic books (1)
(Counter-Peace: Blockages to Peacebuilding and Social Movements

Author(s): Richmond, Oliver; Pogodda, Sandra
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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