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TRANSATLANTIC TRENDS IN
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION

To the liberal men and women who sacrificed their lives in the Southern Mediterranean during the Arab Spring for the sake of freedom, dignity, and democracy for all.

Transatlantic Trends in Democracy Promotion

Electoral Assistance in the Palestinian Territories

ROUBA AL-FATTAL EECKELAERT
European Commission ENPI-Info Center and EuroArab Forum

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Copyright Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert 2013

Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Eeckelaert, Rouba Al-Fattal.

Transatlantic trends in democracy promotion : electorial assistance in the Palestinian territories.

1. DemocratizationInternational cooperation. 2. ElectionsWest Bank.

3. ElectionsGaza Strip. 4. West BankPolitics and government.

5. Gaza StripPolitics and government. 6. United StatesForeign relationsPalestine.

7. CanadaForeign relationsPalestine.

8. European Union countriesForeign relationsPalestine.

I. Title

327.172095694-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Eeckelaert, Rouba Al-Fattal.

Transatlantic trends in democracy promotion : electorial assistance in the Palestinian territories / by Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4929-4 (hardback)

1. Election monitoringWest Bank. 2. Election monitoringGaza Strip. 3. ElectionsWest Bank. 4. ElectionsGaza Strip. 5. DemocracyWest Bank. 6. DemocracyGaza Strip. I. Title.

JQ1830.A95E33 2012

324.65dc23

2012020465

ISBN 9781409449294 (hbk)

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

In 2006 many were shocked to hear that Hamas had won the Palestinian legislative elections, but many were equally surprised to hear that the transatlantic community which helped fund these elections in the first place decided to boycott the party that resulted from them. This book aims at explaining this puzzling behaviour. However, in order to fully explain this paradoxical reaction it is important to first provide an in-depth analysis of each transatlantic actors electoral assistance in the Palestinian Territories (PT), and then to compare the European, American and Canadian policies to draw accurate conclusions on their similarities and differences as well as their shortfalls.

Who are the main decision-makers shaping EU, US and Canadian foreign policy, and what institutional tools do they have to accomplish that? How did the EU, US and Canada decide and implement their electoral assistance in the PT? Why did the EU, the US and Canada embark on assisting the elections in the PT, and what factors influenced their electoral assistance? What were the main limitations facing the EU, US and Canadas electoral assistance policy in the PT? These are some of the pressing questions tackled in this book. The answers help determine whether the transatlantic actors are united or divided over the goals of assisting the elections abroad, and if they wield similar or different strategies, instruments and methods in the PT in an effort to achieve their goals.

In the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, the transatlantic community are expected to support the process and the outcomes of the elections in several south Mediterranean countries that are on their path of democratisation (for example, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya). Therefore, this is a much-anticipated book one that provides the first systematic and comparative analysis of European, American and Canadian efforts to assist elections and transform governance in conflict zones. Besides advancing the empirical knowledge on electoral assistance, it also provides the first steps needed to reform the electoral assistance policy in order to cope with the challenges of the twenty-first century.

List of Abbreviations

ACE	Administrative Cost of Elections
AD	Anno Domini (After Christ)
AHLC	Ad Hoc Liaison Committee
AIPAC	American Israel Public Affairs Committee
AMA	Agreement on Movement and Access
APAC	Association of PalestinianArab Canadian
APS	Annual Program Statement
BC	Before Christ
BP	Barcelona Process
CBC	Canadian Broadcast Corporation
CCD	Council for Community of Democracies
CD	Community of Democracies
CFSP	Common Foreign and Security Policy
CIC	CanadaIsrael Committee
CIDA	Canadian International Development Agency
CIFTA	Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement
CIJA	Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy
CIPAC	CanadaIsrael Public Affairs Committee
CNI	Council for the National Interests
COPPS	Co-ordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support
COREPER	Committee of Permanent Representatives in the EU
CPFECT	CanadianPalestinian Framework for Economic Cooperation and Trade
CRIC	Centre for Research and Information on Canada
CSIS	Canadian Security Intelligence Service
DCAF	(Geneva Centre for the) Democratic Control of Armed Forces
DCP	Democracy Coalition Project
DFAIT	(Canada) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
DG	Directorate-General
DGRELEX	Directorate-General for External Relations
DOP	Declaration of Principles

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