Stick And Carrot: All You Wanted To Know About The Policy of Conditionality But Didn't Dare To Ask
Stick And Carrot: All You Wanted To Know About The Policy of Conditionality But Didn't Dare To Ask

Summary/Abstract: We did not notice when the carrot disappeared, but we felt the stick on our back real good,” Goran Aleksić, member of the Journalist Association of Serbia wrote in his book of aphorisms. The “stick and carrot” policy is a term often used for the politics of conditionality. The subject gained topicality with the emerging of the so-called democratic conditioning, i.e. the second generation of conditionality developed in the 1990s in an effort to promote human rights and democratization of political communities. The purpose of this text is a theoretical analysis of the policy of conditionality. The author’s thesis is that this policy is by its nature invariably coercive, namely that there is always a stick behind it. More precisely, we could discuss the degree of coerciveness and the strategy of conditionality applied to a specific case, but not its nature. Finally, this paper shall also present the theoretical models of conditionality strategies offered by Schimmelfenning, Engert and Knobel in their analysis of the EU conditionality policy.

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