Sdílení postkomunistického transformačního know-how: zkušenosti ze severní Afriky
Sharing post-communist transformational know-how: experiences from North Africa

Author(s): Zora Hesová
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Summary/Abstract: While Egypt, Libya and Tunisia enter the process of political change, Europe is looking for ways to support their democratization. In the summer, the European Commission formulated a strategy aimed at assisting civil society, increasing the mobility of students and professionals and opening up markets. To these general efforts, Eastern European countries, which themselves have fresh memories of their own revolutions, have added another concrete and current strategy – the provision of their own transformative experience. The Czech Republic, in line with its foreign policy priorities, was also active last year in the field of supporting democratization processes in the southern Mediterranean. Since June 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic has supported seven projects focused on the transfer of transformational experiences, primarily in Egypt, but also in Tunisia and Libya, which it wants to continue this year as well. The first conclusions about the meaningfulness and complications of this policy can be drawn from a series of seminars organized by the Association for International Affairs (AMO) with non-governmental organizations in Egypt.

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