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Youngs joined NUPI as Research Fellow to a Commission funded project
on European Security and Defence Policy. He will be spending 2 years
at NUPI before transferring to one of the other institutes in the
project.
He's 33 years old and a UK citizen. Youngs studied at Cambridge
and Warwick universities, before spending three years working in
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
For the last three years he has been coordinating another Commission
project, based at Portsmouth University, on the EU's role in promoting
democracy and human rights.
His research interests include: international dimensions to democratisation;
EU foreign and security policy; comparative democratisation; Western
policies towards the Islamic world; integration and IR theory.
Recent publications include:
The European Union and the Promotion of Democracy: Europe's
Mediterranean and East Asian Policies, Oxford University Press,
2002.
The European Union and Democracy Promotion: The Case of North
Africa, London, Frank Cass, 2002. Edited, with Richard Gillespie.
'European Approaches to Democracy Funding: Learning the Right Lessons?',
Third World Quarterly 24/1, forthcoming 2003.
The European Union and Democracy in the Arab-Muslim World,
CEPS Working Paper no.2, November 2002.
'The European Security and Defence Policy: What Impact on the EU's
Approach to Security Challenges?', European Security, 11/2,
Summer 2002.
'The European Union and Latin American Democracy', Latin American
Politics and Society, Autumn 2002.
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