The Politics of EU Judicial Support after the Arab Spring From I
This book explores the judicial transformations in the Southern Mediterranean region and the mechanisms that trigger these changes. It analyses judicial reforms in Jordan and Morocco in the context of the EU policies to promote and diffuse democratic prin
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The Politics of EU Judicial Support after the Arab Spring
Gaia Taffoni
The Politics of EU Judicial Support after the Arab Spring From Independence to Efficiency
Gaia Taffoni School of Transnational Governance European University Institute Florence, Italy
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Preface
This book is the final product of three years of research spent among the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan, the Centre for European Studies at Queen Mary University London and at the School of Public Policy at University College London. The book draws extensively from my doctoral thesis, in particular part of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 have appeared in the article Supporting Rule of Law from Abroad: A comparative assessment of two post-Arab Spring judicial reforms published in the Italian Political Science Review in July 2019. This work reflects my interest in the processes of change happening in the Southern Mediterranean region at the level of judicial institutions. Focusing consistently on the mechanisms that trigger transformations in a soft way, this book is a first attempt in understanding the power that shared norms and ideas have in the processes of policy transformation. In particular, the original puzzle that generated the research conducted in this book is the event—or the sum of interlocked events—that took place in the MENA region in 2011, namely t
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