The impact of EU`s policies on democratisation in Sub-Sahara Africa

The following ba-thesis present the results of efforts trying to develop a stock-check of those EU´s policies which try to promote democracy in Sub-Sahara Africa and the effects of further EU policies influencing processes of democratisation in Sub-Sahara Africa. Therefore the researcher is focussing not only on the immediate international promotion of democracy by the European Union; he is also faced with the need to take into account those policies which are influencing democratisation in Sub-Sahara Africa in a mediate way. Democracy and the protection of human rights have already been declared goals of western donors´ foreign policies during the time of the cold war - however these goals have been subordinated as less important policies with regard to the global competition between communism and capitalism.