Democracy Without Social Justice: Marginalization of Social and Economic Rights in EU Democracy Assistance Policy after the Arab Uprisings

Middle East Critique

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-25

  Teti, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; critical discourse analysis; democracy assistance; democratization; economic rights; European neighbourhood policy; European union; human rights; social rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923082615     PISSN: 19436149     EISSN: 19436157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2014.1000076     Document Type: Article

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