The Principal Investigator has also been running another complimentary project which was funded by the British Academy on A ‘Modern’ Islamist Democracy? Perceptions of Democratisation in the Arab-Mediterranean World. This was a two-year project (from April 1, 2007 until March 31, 2009). The final conference of this project was held at the European Research Institute, University of Birmingham on March 6, 2009.
This ESRC project focuses on Egypt and Palestine, two cases from the Middle East which experienced controversial elections during 2005 and 2006 respectively and which challenge the EU's rhetoric on democracy promotion. These two cases offer a huge amount of unexplored data on which this project draws.
Therefore, workshops will be held in the two cases studies of the project. Two workshops will be held in Cairo, Egypt between the 10th and 11th October, 2009 at the Arab Forum for Alternatives, and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) facilities, respectively. Workshops will also be organized in Palestine in November 2009.
These workshops will offer the possibility for an increased awareness of the environment of the recipients of EU efforts at democracy promotion and their localized identities and contexts.
A final project conference will be held in Brussels in early 2011.
The Programme of this event is available here.
British Academy Final Conference Report March 2009 (pdf)
This event was co-funded by the British Academy, the European Politics research group of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, the British International Studies Association (Working Group on International Mediterranean Studies) and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies.
The PI chaired a panel on Europe in the World: Relations with the Southern Neighbours at a major conference on The Future of Europe at the European Research Institute, University of Birmingham on 14-15 May 2009. For more information visit:
Final Event for a related British Academy Project on: A ‘Modern’ Islamist Democracy? Perceptions of Democratisation in the Arab-Mediterranean World
