Paper short abstract:

My paper would analyse the framework of multilateral democracy promotion and test its applicability to the case study of Afghanistan where India and the European Union can be partners.

Paper long abstract:

Multilateral Democracy Promotion by the EU in Afghanistan with India as a Partner

Politically unstable region can be a seedbed for collective violence that poses security risk not only to neighbouring but also to distant regions of the world thereby justifying the need for external civilian and military intervention to control and check the spill over of conflicts. The research question that drives this paper is how the European Union can contribute to democracy promotion by developing a multilateral framework which involves active participation not only from the EU but also from the countries of the region like India for democracy promotion efforts in Afghanistan. This paper strives to find out what the preconditions and mechanisms for effective and legitimate multilateral democracy promotion are and if such a multilateral framework would be viable in the Afghan case. Its purpose is to develop a theoretical framework for multilateral democracy promotion. It will take as its starting point the state of art of the approaches to democracy promotion that have already been developed for the EU by Knod and Junemann, Young etc that dominate the field and will go on to explore the significance of a multilateral democracy promotion in normative and institutional terms for the Afghan case with India as a partner.