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Richard Youngs

Director General

Richard Youngs is Director General of FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. Prior to joining FRIDE, he was EU Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004.
He studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities, and previously worked as Analyst at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom.

Geo tags

European Union Middle East and North Africa

Expert in

Democracy promotion Democratisation Energy Security EU Foreign Policy

Spoken languages

English, Spanish

Written languages

English, Spanish

Expert publications

• 01/03/2010 - European conflict resolution policies: truncated peace-building

• 12/02/2010 - Why the European Union needs a 'broader Middle East' policy

• 12/01/2010 - Explaining Spain's unfulfilled potential

• 02/12/2009 - Beyond Copenhagen: Securitising climate change

• 26/11/2009 - New Challenges to Democratization

• 30/10/2009 - Democracy's plight in the European Neighbourhood

• 24/09/2009 - The end of the Euro-Mediterranean vision

• 08/09/2009 - The G20: A dangerous multilateralism?

• 05/09/2009 - Europe and the politics of financial crisis

• 30/06/2009 - Dicing with Democracy

• 03/06/2009 - Islamist radicalisation: the challenge for euro-mediterranean relations

• 28/04/2009 - Impasse in Euro-Gulf relations

• 10/02/2009 - Energy security: Europe's new foreign policy challenge

• 22/01/2009 - Europe, the US and Middle Eastern democracy

• 14/01/2009 - Gaza's hell: Why the EU must change its policy

• 19/12/2008 - Is the European Union supporting democracy in its neighbourhood?

• 14/11/2008 - The financial crisis and EU foreign policy

• 10/11/2008 - Energy challenges in the Middle East and North Africa

• 02/10/2008 - Development, security and energy: improving coherence

• 22/09/2008 - Algeria: Democratic transition case study

• 16/09/2008 - Oil companies and the EU' s external energy policies

• 12/09/2008 - The politics of energy

• 30/07/2008 - Energy: a reinforced obstacle to democracy?

• 21/07/2008 - Europe's inconsistent support for democratic reform in Ukraine

• 02/06/2008 - Is the League of Democracies a Bad Idea? how Europe should respond

• 13/05/2008 - Is European democracy promotion on the wane?

• 21/04/2008 - Trends in democracy assistance: what has Europe been doing?

• 26/11/2007 - Political Islam and European Foreign Policy

• 23/11/2007 - Europe's external energy policy: between geopolitics and the market

• 03/10/2007 - Europe's potential as a force for international ethics

• 17/09/2007 - Europe and the Gulf: strategic neglect

• 14/09/2007 - Fusing Security and Development: just another euro-platitude?

• 10/09/2007 - European Union External Democracy Promotion

• 24/07/2007 - Has the EU Got Its Iran Strategy Right?

• 07/03/2007 - The EU and the Middle East Peace Process: Re-engagement?

• 10/01/2007 - Europe's energy policy: economics, ethics, geopolitics

• 10/01/2007 - New Governments, New Directions in European Foreign Policies?

• 12/12/2006 - Democracy promotion and the european left: ambivalence confused?

• 05/09/2006 - Europe and the Middle East: in the shadow of septembre 11

• 20/06/2006 - Strategies for Democratic Change: assessing the Global Response

• 01/05/2006 - Survey of European Democracy Promotion Policies 2000-2006

• 08/03/2006 - Democracy and Security in the Middle East

• 12/10/2005 - The Euro-Mediterranean partnership: assessing the first decade

• 05/07/2005 - No lasting Peace and Prosperity without Democracy

• 01/07/2005 - The reluctant debutante: The European Union as promoter of democracy in its neighbourhood

• 14/01/2005 - Ten years of the Barcelona Process: a model for supporting Arab Reform?

• 18/11/2004 - Europe and Iraq: from stand-off to engagement?

• 14/10/2004 - Crunch time on Turkey

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