In the Borderlands of Democracy: EU Accession Conditionality, Protest and Repression in Southeast Europe

Diplôme Thèse In the Borderlands of Democracy: EU Accession Conditionality, Protest and Repression in Southeast Europe eng 2022-10-12 author Beyer Jan Nicola 915782 director Giugni Marco 24307 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:165363 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1653635 SdS 220 <p>Tracking the frequency with which governments have used lethal or non-lethal violence during protests, it can be shown that governments in Southeast Europe appear to have become more tolerant of this type of extra-parliamentary political participation. Data collected from protest events shows that at least since the early 2000s there has been a period of government restraint. This came at the same time as the EU opened accession pathways for most countries in the region. Thus, the thesis discusses the reasons for the decline in repression. It explores whether the temporal correlation between increased EU engagement and the decline of physical repression in the region was coincidental or can be linked. In this context, the thesis focuses on the role of EU-accession conditionality, since it has been assumed that EU conditionality could have a democratizing and, therefore, potentially constraining effect on governments. Even though the thesis concludes that EU-accession conditionality impacted repression, the nature of that impact is complex. It shows that to understand how EU-accession conditionality impacted repression, we cannot treat repression as a monolithic concept. Although EU conditionality reduced visible forms of repression, such as lethal and non-lethal violence, it had little effect on opaque, institutional forms of repression.</p> Dewey 320 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 false e1ebb754-bea6-4b64-96a1-915d66219a00 Thesis Private Thesis_Jan_Beyer.pdf 3561510 application/pdf dfeab0fb5f52b6a563ced0a222b14266d72f18df61246b2d5f5f35ff85da266f a61e07c1-762d-485e-85c4-ebb6a6dc5fde Imprimatur Public BEYER Jan_SPO.pdf 60747 application/pdf 695097d1511610fe8a2a50488c8b272b81b67150d87de573e96c3c07401887de closedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales

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