TY - BOOK AU - Mariem Karam Kamel AU - Mostafa Elwi Saif , TI - The role of the European union in democratic transition and consolidation in Poland and Egypt : : Comparative analysis / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mariem Karam Kamel , KW - Democracy KW - Democratization KW - Revolution N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Political Science; Issued also as CD N2 - The weight of EU leverage differs in both Poland and Egypt, the EU leverage in Poland has evolved since 1989 until polish membership in EU in 2004, while in the Egyptian case, the EU economic linkage increased but without political leverage, one can notice the EU mediation after 30 June could be a matter of leverage in Egypt democratic transition. The EU instruments in Poland were evolved from negotiable attitude to conditional according to polish achievement in democratic transition, while in the Egyptian case; the EU hesitated between conditionality and negotiations. Moreover, Political transition and consolidation in Poland were paralleled to integration into EU which made democratic transformation smoother than in the Egyptian transformation UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -