Simon Mangon - "EU Support for the Jordanian Media. A Mixed Bag of Successes and Failures".

Centre Noria ResearchDec. 2021.
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This piece interrogates the challenges of advancing media reform initiatives within authoritarian contexts. Based on a case study of the EU-funded Support to Media in Jordan Project-launched in the wake of the Arab Spring-it reveals how the local mediation of internationally sponsored reform efforts allows authoritarian regimes to ingratiate themselves to external partners while blocking meaningful change on the ground.