EU Development Cooperation From Model to Symbol

by Arts, Karin; Dickson, Anna K.

• ISBN13: 9780719062995
• ISBN10: 0719062993
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

It is increasingly recognized that EU development cooperation policy has failed to meet its stated aims. In this book, available for the first time in paperback, Arts and Dickson ask the obvious and important question: if the policy doesn't work, why bother with it? The authors assess why EU development policy has become largely ineffective, citing among the external causal factors the liberalisation of trade, and the growing influence of US and international actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund upon EU policy. It also considers contributing factors within the EU such as the enlargement of its membership and the resulting shifts in priorities. It is this analysis of internal and external factors affecting the decline of EU development policy that makes this study both innovative and unique. It brings together an impressive range of contributors from different disciplines resulting in a thorough and intelligent assessment of the debate. This study will appeal to advanced level undergraduates and academics of European politics in general, EU integration, development studies, and International Relations.

Author Biography

Karin Arts is Associate Professor in International Law and Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands. Anna K. Dickson is Lecturer in International Relations in the Politics Department of the University of Durham, UK.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. x
EU development cooperation: from model to symbol?	p. 1
From uniqueness to uniformity? An assessment of EU development aid policies	p. 17
The unimportance of trade preferences	p. 42
The ACP in the European Union's network of regional relationships: still unique or just one in the crowd?	p. 60
Changing European concerns: security and complex political emergencies instead of development	p. 80
Changing interests in EU development cooperation: the impact of EU membership and advancing integration	p. 101
'Sense and sensibility': the role of France and French interests in European development policy since 1957	p. 113
The Commission and development policy: bureaucratic politics in EU aid - from the Lomé leap forward to the difficulties of adapting to the twenty-first century	p. 133
Conclusions: the potential and limits of EU development cooperation policy	p. 149
Index	p. 153
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