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

Información del proyecto

EMBRACE

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101060809

DOI

10.3030/101060809

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 2 Junio 2022

Fecha de inicio 1 Octubre 2022

Fecha de finalización 30 Septiembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Coste total

€ 2 784 843,75

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 784 843,50

Coordinado por

BERGHOF FOUNDATION OPERATIONS gGMBH
Germany

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Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Documents, reports (12)

Theory framework paper
Policy Report on the effects of EUDP
Working Paper on effective EUDP after popular uprisings
Policy Report on EUDP in contexts of authoritarian and hybrid regimes
Policy Report on EU support to democratic forces after popular uprisings
Comparative synthesis paper
Research Report on international intervention and the consolidation of democracy in post-conflict societies
Working Paper on cultural factors of democratisation
Scholarly article comparing EUDP in autocratic and hybrid regimes
Policy Report on the emerging patterns of blockages and EU responses
Monograph on blockages to peace
Policy Report on the EU and its competition with other geopolitical players

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Toolkit for EU decision-makers on the geopolitics of EUDP
Digital platform on democratisation-related skills

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

Interactive mapping tool visualising project data and results
Podcast series on projects results and mutual learning
Project logo developed and public website online

Publicaciones

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

Autores: Murat Coskun, Elena Dueck
Publicado en: Democratization, Edición 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Editor: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2514767

Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note

Autores: Sonja Grimm, Brigitte Weiffen, Karina Mross
Publicado en: Democratization, Edición 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Editor: 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

Autores: Roman Petrov
Publicado en: Yearbook of European Law, Edición 43, 2024, ISSN 0263-3264
Editor: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/YEL/YEAE002

Review of International Studies

Autores: Pogdda, S., Richmond, O., Visoka, G.
Publicado en: Review of International Studies, Edición 3, 2023, ISSN 0260-2105
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000377

Conditional Aid Under What Conditions? Exploring Consistency in Performance‐Based Aid Allocation

Autores: Karina Shyrokykh, Nea Solander
Publicado en: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Edición 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Editor: 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

Autores: Giselle Bosse
Publicado en: Democratization, Edición 32, 2025, ISSN 1351-0347
Editor: 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

Autores: Roman Petrov
Publicado en: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Edición 84, 2024, ISSN 0044-2348
Editor: Verlag C.H.Beck oHG
DOI: 10.17104/0044-2348-2024-3-421

Rethinking Peace and Victory in Light of Russian Aggression in Ukraine

Autores: Tetiana Kyselova, Dana M. Landau
Publicado en: International Negotiation, Edición 30, 2025, ISSN 1382-340X
Editor: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-BJA10125

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

Autores: Tetiana Kyselova
Publicado en: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Edición 19, 2024, ISSN 1750-2977
Editor: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2024.2364309

Civil society and anti-corruption reform in Georgia: revisiting the rose revolution

Autores: David Aprasidze
Publicado en: Frontiers in Political Science, Edición 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Editor: 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

Autores: Laura Luciani
Publicado en: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Edición 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JCMS.13761

Postkomunistička tranzicija Srbije u uporednom i istorijskom kontekstu

Autores: Marko Žilović
Publicado en: Političke perspektive, Edición 15, 2025, ISSN 2335-027X
Editor: 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)

Autores: Yevgenya Jenny Paturyan, Liana Simonyan, Gor Papikyan
Publicado en: Frontiers in Political Science, Edición 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1656829

The international dynamics of counter-peace

Autores: Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, Gëzim Visoka
Publicado en: European Journal of International Relations, Edición 30, 2023, ISSN 1354-0661
Editor: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/13540661231168772

Seeking to embed democracy: tracing the substantial evolution of the European Union’s democracy promotion, 2004–2020

Autores: Sonja Grimm, Karina Shyrokykh, Nea Solander
Publicado en: Comparative European Politics, Edición 23, 2025, ISSN 1472-4790
Editor: 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

Autores: Laura Luciani, Maryna Shevtsova
Publicado en: Journal of Gender Studies, Edición 34, 2024, ISSN 0958-9236
Editor: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2024.2427198

Counter-peace: From isolated blockages in peace processes to systemic patterns

Autores: Sandra Pogodda, Oliver P. Richmond, Gëzim Visoka
Publicado en: Review of International Studies, Edición 49, 2023, ISSN 0260-2105
Editor: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210522000377

Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood

Autores: Nea Solander
Publicado en: Journal of European Integration, 2025, ISSN 0703-6337
Editor: 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

Autores: Milica Jevtić
Publicado en: Frontiers in Political Science, Edición 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1654950

Ukrainian Visions of Peace: (Re-)Shaping Peace through Victory

Autores: Tetiana Kyselova, Dana M. Landau
Publicado en: International Negotiation, Edición 30, 2025, ISSN 1382-340X
Editor: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-BJA10111

Peacemaking and the Maintenance of International Order: Alignment under Hegemony versus Multipolar Misalignment

Autores: Richmond, Oliver; Pogodda, Sandra
Publicado en: Global Studies Quarterly, 2024, ISSN 2634-3797
Editor: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4818749

Nothing civil about this war: UN mediation in revolutionary wars

Autores: Sandra Pogodda
Publicado en: Contemporary Security Policy, 2025, ISSN 1743-8764
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2025.2460918

Transitional justice in Tunisia: a critical assessment of the External Actors’ Involvement

Autores: Nadia Jmal
Publicado en: Frontiers in Political Science, Edición 7, 2025, ISSN 2673-3145
Editor: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2025.1656319

One tabloid to rule them all

Autores: Bojan Vranić, Milica Jevtić
Publicado en: Politička misao, Edición 61, 2024, ISSN 1846-8721
Editor: Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
DOI: 10.20901/PM.61.4.01

Book chapters (3)

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

Autores: Nebojša Vladisavljević
Publicado en: 2026
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan

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

Autores: 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.
Editor: Routledge

European Integration, and Democracy and Human Rights Reforms in Ukraine in the Wartime

Autores: Karina Shyrokykh, Kateryna Busol, Dmytro Koval
Publicado en: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, Ukraine’s Thorny Path to the EU, 2025
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-69154-6_7

Other (14)

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

Autores: Shyrokykh, K.; Grimm, S.; Solander, N.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: Bosse, G.
Publicado en: 2025
Editor: Carnegie Europe

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

Autores: Bosse, G.; van der Broek, W.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: 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.
Editor: 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

Autores: Pogodda, S.; Richmond, O.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: Ioannides, I.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: 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.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

Synthesis Report: Comparative findings on EU democracy promotion

Autores: Grimm, S.; Stolzenberger, R.; Solander, N.
Editor: 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

Autores: Koval, D.; Latsyba, A.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

Obstacles and Facilitators of EU democracy promotion. Policy Brief 08

Autores: Grimm, S.; Shyrokykh, K.; Solander, N.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: Tetiana Kyselova
Publicado en: 2023
Editor: Folke Bernadotte Academy
DOI: 10.61880/DAJQ2447

Theory Framework Paper

Autores: Grimm, S; EMBRACE Consortium
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: Rennick, S.A.; Jmal, N.; Paturyan, J.; Vranić, B.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

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

Autores: Shaban, O.
Editor: EMBRACE Project

Monographic books (1)

(Counter-Peace: Blockages to Peacebuilding and Social Movements

Autores: Richmond, Oliver; Pogodda, Sandra
Publicado en: 2026
Editor: Oxford University Press