REconfiguring EU DEMOcracy Support ? Towards a sustained demos in the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood

Informations projet

REDEMOS

N° de convention de subvention: 101061738

DOI

10.3030/101061738

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 9 Juin 2022

Date de début 1 Janvier 2023

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Coût total

€ 2 313 017,50

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 313 017,50

Coordonné par

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
Norway

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Livrables

Documents, reports (22)

Working paper Interplay of security & stability and democracy support

This working paper analyses the much debated security-democracy nexus in EU action and discusses how security concerns have obstructed the full and active functioning of the demos cycle. This will be jointly elaborated by NTNU, KSE, GFSIS, IDIS, and CRRC.

Working paper Conceptual framework & Design of custom-made instruments of democracy promotion

This working paper will form the basis of a regime-tailored conceptual framework and the design of custom-made instruments of democracy cooperation. It will be elaborated by TUD and SURREY.

Working paper Stocktaking of EU democracy support towards the eastern neighbourhood

This working paper will provide an overview and critical analysis of all EU democracy support action towards the eastern neighbourhood in a longitudinal perspective. This working paper will be elaborated by SURREY, YSU, TUD and HSG.

Working paper External actors and the promotion of alternative norms

This working paper, to be elaborated by TUD and ICDS, will critically examine the role of external actors in the eastern neighbourhood and their efforts of promoting alternative norms.

Working paper Democracy discourses across the eastern neighbourhood and EU institutions

This working paper will identify, deconstruct and contrast differences and similarities of democracy discourses across the eastern neighbourhood and EU institutions. It will be jointly drafted by KSE, SURREY, and YSU.

Policy paper Contrasting EU and EU Member States' democracy support action

This paper, targeting officials and policy makers, is a natural continuation of the two previous deliverables, connects their findings and compares EU and EU Member States' democracy support action, thus offering important reflections on how to enhance complementarity and coherence. This will be elaborated jointly by SURREY and YSU.

Policy papers on Success factors and barriers to democratization in the eastern neighbourhood

This deliverable is composed of four policy papers, each one of which is focusing on a cluster of success factors and barriers to democratization at the domestic and regional levels: social (elaborated by NTNU and CRRC); economic (elaborated by KSE and IDIS); cultural (to be drafted by GFSIS, GFSISE); and statehood (elaborated by NTNU and ICDS).

Working paper Funding practices, variegated conceptions of funding categories, and implications on democracy support research

Drawing on the previously collected data, this working paper will offer a critical overview and analysis of funding practices by the EU, EU Member States and international organisations, link these to actors' variegated conceptions of funding categories, and discuss implications and consequences for international democracy support (research). It will be jointly elaborated by KSE, NTNU, HSG.

Policy papers Regime clusters and challenges to democratization in the eastern neighbourhood

This deliverable, composed of two policy papers, targeting practitioners and policy makers, will address the different regime clusters and analyse their respective challenges to democratization. It will be elaborated by TUD and SURREY, with input from YSU, KSE, GFSIS, IDIS, and CRRC.

Working paper EU understandings of its image as a norms supporter and their relevance for EU policies

This working paper, to be drafted by HSG, will examine the EU's own understandings of its role as a democracy supporter and how these influence or inform relevant EU policies as such.

Report Toolkit for EU democracy collaboration

This report, to be drafted by SURREY and NTNU, provides the toolkit for EU Democracy Collaboration.

Working paper Stocktaking EU Member States democracy action towards the eastern neighbourhood

This working paper aims at offering a detailed overview and analysis of EU Member States' democracy support actions towards the eastern neighbourhood in a longitudinal perspective. It will be elaborated by SURREY, YSU, TUD, and HSG.

Working paper Conceptual framework EU democracy funding research

This working paper will outline the conceptual framework ensuring coherence between the different conceptions of the EU, EU Member States, international organisations, and eastern neighbours as re. different funding categories and the subsequent data collection, processing and interpretation. This will be jointly elaborated by KSE, NTNU, and HSG.

Report Evaluating the impact of domestic political factors on EU democracy support

This report will evaluate the impact of domestic political factors on EU democracy support and is elaborated by SURREY and TUD.

Working paper The demos cycle

This working paper, to be jointly drafted by NTNU and SURREY, revolves around the demos cycle and the conditions for its full and active functioning.

Report EU and eastern neighbours' democracy discourses and images of the EU as a democracy supporter through the prism of coherence

This report, to be elaborated by KSE, ICDS and HSG, will address and examine EU and eastern neighbours’ democracy discourses and images of the EU as a democracy supporter against the backdrop of competing narratives by norm contenders in the eastern neighbourhood and through the prism of coherence.

Policy papers The Role of the US, Russia, and China on political transition in the eastern neighbourhood

This deliverable, composed of three policy papers, and targeting officials and policy makers, discusses the role of key external actors, such as the US, Russia and China in the eastern neighbourhood, and how their respective policies affect democratization processes or the entrenchment of authoritarianism. GFSIS, GFSISE and ICDS will draft the paper on the US, ICDS, GFSIS, GFSISE and YSU on Russia, and ICDS, GFSISE and the GFSIS on China.

Report Lessons learnt - political transition in the eastern neighbourhood

This report revolves around lessons learnt regarding democratic progress, stasis, regression and authoritarianization in the eastern neighbourhood. It will be elaborated by GFSISE, NTNU, KSE, TUD, ICDS, IDIS, and CRRC).

Report Third country competition and EU democracy support in the eastern neighbourhood

This report, containing clear-cut policy recommendations, aims at synthesizing and contrasting third country competition and EU democracy support in the eastern neighbourhood. It will be jointly elaborated by ICDS, GFSIS, GFSISE, YSU, IDIS, and CRRC.

Policy paper EU and EU Member States' funding across funding categories in the eastern neighbourhood

Based on the collected data, this policy paper, targeting officials and policy-makers, will offer a systematic overview of the EU and Member States' funding in the eastern neighbourhood, divided by funding categories. It will be jointly elaborated by KSE and NTNU.

Dissemination and communication strategy

This deliverable, drafted by ATC and SURREY, is the dissemination/exploitation/communication strategy.

Working paper Democratic progress, stasis, regression & authoritarianization in the eastern neighbourhood

This working paper will offer a critical analysis and overview of the state of political transition in the eastern neighbourhood throughout the period in question. It will be jointly elaborated by GFSIS, NTNU and TUD.

Other (2)

Policy round-table on EU responses to third country competition in the eastern neighbourhood
Project-identity kit and communications material

ATC will create a project-identity kit, project branding, poster, templates for internal/external materials and guidelines for partners, e.g. for GDPR compliance. It will also produce a project brochure and regularly issue press releases and project videos, showcasing project goals and results.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project website, logo and social media presence

ATC will create the project website, logo and create/utilize social media accounts.

Web-accessible, open source, gif-animated visual narratives of EU democracy support in WP2-WP8

HSG will produce web-accessible, open source, gif-animated visual narratives meant to improve citizens’ understanding of EU democracy support.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Ukrainian decentralization under martial law: challenges for regional and local self-governance

Auteurs: Maryna Rabinovych, Tymofii Brik, Andrii Darkovich, Valentyn Hatsko, Myroslava Savisko
Publié dans: Post-Soviet Affairs, Numéro 41, 2025, ISSN 1060-586X
Éditeur: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2025.2520167

EU external differentiated integration as a crisis response tool? Evidence from Ukraine

Auteurs: Maryna Rabinovych
Publié dans: West European Politics, Numéro 48, 2025, ISSN 0140-2382
Éditeur: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2024.2401246

Regional integration choices and prospect theory: Evidence from Eastern Partnership countries

Auteurs: Sergiu Buscaneanu, Andrew X Li
Publié dans: International Relations, 2026, ISSN 0047-1178
Éditeur: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00471178251351458

Beyond External Incentives: The European Union, Wartime Enlargement and the Candidate Countries in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Auteurs: Alexander Mesarovich, Tobias Schumacher
Publié dans: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Numéro 63, 2025, ISSN 0021-9886
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JCMS.70018

Anti-Western sentiments, disinformation and the reactions to Russia’s war on Ukraine in the Global South

Auteurs: Ragnar Weilandt
Publié dans: Defence Studies, Numéro 25, 2025, ISSN 1470-2436
Éditeur: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2025.2588578