European Union and the Third World : The European Union Series

by Holland, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780333659052
• ISBN10: 0333659058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This text provides a broad-ranging analysis of the EU's relations with the developing world today set in the context of the policy, debates, and changes of the 1990s and the EU's historical ties to the Third World. Covering the whole range of the EU's relations with developing states including the Cotonou Agreement and the 'Everything but Arms' Regulation, the book assesses the likely evolution of trading regimes and the scope and limits of opportunities for fostering economic progress and good governance.

Author Biography

Martin Holland is Jean Monnet Chair and Director, Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes	viii
List of Abbreviations	x
Preface	xii
Introduction: Setting the Context	1	(2)
Where is the Developing World?	3	(4)
Context	7	(4)
Objectives and Challenges: The Focus of the Study	11	(9)
The Chapters	20	(3)
Conclusion	23	(2)
Four Decades of African, Caribbean and Pacific Relations	25	(27)
The Yaounde Conventions	27	(5)
The Lome Conventions: I and II (1976-85)	32	(8)
Lome III and IV	40	(9)
Institution-building: From Lome to Cotonou	49	(2)
Conclusion	51	(1)
Latin America and Asia	52	(33)
Latin America	52	(7)
Asia: Beginning a Dialogue	59	(5)
The Trade Dimension: ASEM I, II, III	64	(10)
Future Challenges	74	(4)
The Aid Dimension	78	(5)
Conclusion	83	(2)
Decision-making and Reforming Institutional Structures	85	(28)
The Structure of the Santer Commission, 1995-9	85	(4)
The 2000 Administrative Reforms	89	(11)
ECHO: The European Community Humanitarian Office	100	(11)
Conclusion	111	(2)
Complementarity and Conditionality: Evaluating Good Governance	113	(27)
Complementarity	114	(5)
Conditionality: Good Governance, Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law	119	(6)
Economic Conditionality: Liberalization, Structural Adjustment and Debt	125	(7)
Implementing Conditionality	132	(6)
Conclusion	138	(2)
Regimes, Trade and Trading Relations	140	(27)
EU Trade Policy	140	(7)
Trade	147	(4)
Financial Resources	151	(2)
Other Trading Regimes	153	(11)
Conclusion	164	(3)
The 1996-2000 Reform Process	167	(29)
The Rationale for Reform	169	(4)
The Green Paper and the New Agenda	173	(1)
The Post-Lome Alternatives	174	(3)
The Commission Guidelines and Policy Transition	177	(9)
The Council Negotiating Mandate	186	(3)
Unequal Partners: The Negotiating Process	189	(5)
Conclusion	194	(2)
The Cotonou Partnership Agreement	196	(24)
Objectives, Principles and Institutional Structure	199	(2)
Political Dialogue and Conditionality	201	(4)
Financing and the EDF	205	(3)
Innovations	208	(4)
Towards Differentiation under the ACP Umbrella	212	(7)
Conclusion	219	(1)
Future Challenges: Implementing Cotonou and `Everything but Arms'	220	(14)
Implementing Cotonou	220	(5)
`Everything but Arms'	225	(7)
Conclusion	232	(2)
Conclusion: Development and Integration	234	(11)
Development and Integration Theory	235	(8)
Conclusion	243	(2)
Bibliography	245	(8)
Index	253