Stopping at the front door: How EU policy needs domestic actors to make a difference in the MENA

Maggi, Eva-Maria (2015) Stopping at the front door: How EU policy needs domestic actors to make a difference in the MENA. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Being involved with the European Union (EU) does not only change member state and accession candidates. This paper shows that cooperation with the EU also affects institutional change where it was not yet found: in its neighborhood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It argues that the EU affects institutional change in its neighborhood when it serves the interest of domestic actors. Applying an actor-centered theoretical framework, the paper dissects how political actors used cooperation with the EU between 1995 and 2008 to alter domestic processes of institutional change in economic and environmental policy in Morocco.

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