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The European Union and Democracy in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Youngs
Richard Youngs*
Affiliation:
Norwegian Institute for International Relations (NUPI) in Oslo and at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom
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The European Union has developed a significant range of democracy promotion initiatives in Latin America since the 1990s. The E.U.'s approach to democracy building has been seen to possess a number of strengths relative to U.S. policy, especially in connection with grassroots developmental imperatives. European policy itself, however, has a number of limitations. It has inadequately conceptualized the linkages between economic and political dimensions; it has insufficiently recognized the potential benefits of balancing bottom-up and top-down approaches. The E.U.'s influence over Latin American governments has remained more nebulous than that of the United States. European and U.S. policies in Latin America have both rivaled and complemented each other. Understanding this might inform both actors' democracy promotion efforts in the region.

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Policy Issues
Information
Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , Fall 2002 , pp. 111 - 139
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Copyright © University of Miami 2002

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