ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as a continuation of the previous chapter, analysing the EU as an external actor, and its conditionality as an external form of influence. The question as to how the EU has developed the ability to pursue policies concerning democracy and human rights towards applicant states has been of particular importance for two main reasons. First, the EU has developed an ever more extensive portfolio of conditionality demands to promote democracy in the current applicant states. Second, since the main strand of this study is related to the uneasy relationship between the EU and Turkey as regards democracy and human rights, and since Turkey is an applicant state itself, this necessitates paying greater attention to the issues of human rights and democracy and how they constitute key conditions at the heart of the enlargement process.
