EU Democracy Assistance Discourse in Its New Response to a Changing Neighbourhood

Democracy and Security

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 61-79

  Teti, Andrea ^a   Thompson, Darcy ^a,b   Noble, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; Critical Discourse Analysis; Democracy Assistance; Democratization; European Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875300532     PISSN: 17419166     EISSN: 15555860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2012.736311     Document Type: Article

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15. For an introduction to the methods of CDA and a review of the methodological debate, see Norman Fairclough, Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research (London: Routledge, 2003).
16. Andrea Teti interview with Commission official, March 2011; Andrea Teti interviews with two former Commission officials, March 2012.
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