Tesi etd-09262019-111006
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Tipo di tesi
Perfezionamento
Autore
CINO, LUIGI
URN
etd-09262019-111006
Titolo
The Interdependences between ENP and Institutional Change: a New Institutionalist Analysis of Morocco and Tunisia after the Arab Uprisings
Settore scientifico disciplinare
SPS/04
Corso di studi
SCIENZE POLITICHE - Joint PhD in Political Science, European Politics and International Relations
Commissione
Membro GIUSTI, SERENA
Membro Prof. DIODATO, EMIDIO
Presidente Prof.ssa LORETONI, ANNA
Membro Dott. CALOSSI, ENRICO
Membro Prof. DIODATO, EMIDIO
Presidente Prof.ssa LORETONI, ANNA
Membro Dott. CALOSSI, ENRICO
Parole chiave
- Arab Uprisings
- European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)
- Morocco
- New Institutionalism
- Tunisia
Data inizio appello
04/12/2019;
Disponibilità
parziale
Riassunto analitico
This thesis aims to investigate European Neighbourhood Policy in its local context. Focusing on the Southern dimension, the research puts attention on the institutional changes that affected Morocco and Tunisia after the breakout of the Arab Uprisings, with particular reference to their interactions with ENP, which are the fulcrum of the investigation.
The work is divided in three main sections: research design, empirical part, findings and conclusions. The research design part contains a first methodological chapter and a second theoretical chapter. Starting from a literature review on Euro-Mediterranean relations, the first methodological chapter introduces the main characteristics and the structure of the ENP and illustrates EU’s response to the Arab Uprisings events that shook the Southern Neighbourhood. These events brought to relevant institutional changes in the local context, whose interaction with the ENP has not been fully uncovered in the academic debate yet.
“How did ENP and local institutional changes interact each other after the Arab Uprisings?” is the research question that inspires this study. The answer is searched through the use of qualitative data and methodology, taking two case studies which show similarity and differences at the same time: Morocco and Tunisia. Indeed, while both countries have continuously participated in the ENP, they experienced two different kinds of institutional change, which give the opportunity to perform a comparison between them. Chapter 2 illustrates the theoretical framework which is useful to disentangle the different kinds of institutional changes that occurred in Morocco and Tunisia. Within the wide theoretical field of New Institutionalism, the model proposed by the Gradual Change Theory (Mahoney and Thelen, 2010) reveals to be the most fit to understand the institutional characteristics of the two countries.
Chapters 3 and 4 are dedicated to the two case studies: Morocco and Tunisia are examined in the characteristics of their institutions, of their political context and about the type of dominant change agent. These three dimensions represent the traits of two different types of institutional change occurred in Morocco and Tunisia. The first country has seen merely cosmetic changes, with the introduction of new rules on the top of the old ones (“layering” type of institutional change). The second one has seen big changes, with the removal of the old system and the introduction of a new one, represented in the new Constitution: this is the “displacement” type of institutional change. The second part of each chapter is indeed dedicated to trace variations in the ENP for the two case studies, underlying the links between them and the processes of institutional change.
Chapter 5 is the part of analysis and comparison. The chapter recalls the empirical differences founded in the two countries for the institutional change dimensions and for the variations of ENP objectives and implementation. On the basis of these consideration, interactions between institutional change and ENP emerge: the finding is that each dimension of institutional change affects, in one way or another, one specific policy phase of the ENP. The conclusion part sums up the work and opens to new directions of research in this field.
The work is divided in three main sections: research design, empirical part, findings and conclusions. The research design part contains a first methodological chapter and a second theoretical chapter. Starting from a literature review on Euro-Mediterranean relations, the first methodological chapter introduces the main characteristics and the structure of the ENP and illustrates EU’s response to the Arab Uprisings events that shook the Southern Neighbourhood. These events brought to relevant institutional changes in the local context, whose interaction with the ENP has not been fully uncovered in the academic debate yet.
“How did ENP and local institutional changes interact each other after the Arab Uprisings?” is the research question that inspires this study. The answer is searched through the use of qualitative data and methodology, taking two case studies which show similarity and differences at the same time: Morocco and Tunisia. Indeed, while both countries have continuously participated in the ENP, they experienced two different kinds of institutional change, which give the opportunity to perform a comparison between them. Chapter 2 illustrates the theoretical framework which is useful to disentangle the different kinds of institutional changes that occurred in Morocco and Tunisia. Within the wide theoretical field of New Institutionalism, the model proposed by the Gradual Change Theory (Mahoney and Thelen, 2010) reveals to be the most fit to understand the institutional characteristics of the two countries.
Chapters 3 and 4 are dedicated to the two case studies: Morocco and Tunisia are examined in the characteristics of their institutions, of their political context and about the type of dominant change agent. These three dimensions represent the traits of two different types of institutional change occurred in Morocco and Tunisia. The first country has seen merely cosmetic changes, with the introduction of new rules on the top of the old ones (“layering” type of institutional change). The second one has seen big changes, with the removal of the old system and the introduction of a new one, represented in the new Constitution: this is the “displacement” type of institutional change. The second part of each chapter is indeed dedicated to trace variations in the ENP for the two case studies, underlying the links between them and the processes of institutional change.
Chapter 5 is the part of analysis and comparison. The chapter recalls the empirical differences founded in the two countries for the institutional change dimensions and for the variations of ENP objectives and implementation. On the basis of these consideration, interactions between institutional change and ENP emerge: the finding is that each dimension of institutional change affects, in one way or another, one specific policy phase of the ENP. The conclusion part sums up the work and opens to new directions of research in this field.
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