The Acp Group and the Eu Development Partnership: Beyond the North-South Debate

ISBN-13: 9783319454917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 380 str.

Annita Montoute; Kudrat Virk

Opis

This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). A core theme that runs through the work is that the ACP's partnership with the EU remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions, but needs to adapt to changes in the global political economy, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU, to sustain its relevance and effectiveness. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its origins in, and core focus on, development cooperation with Europe. The authors in this volume examine the history of the ACP-EU partnership since 1975; the EU's relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions individually; ACP experiences with economic partnership agreements with the EU; and new political issues, in particular, security, migration, and diasporas. Shedding light on the future prospects of this relationship, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on the ACP-EU relationship and related development issues, including trade, aid, security, and migration.

Spis treści

Part I: Historical Foundations of the ACP-EU Relationship

1. Introduction (Annita Montoute)

2. A History of the ACP-EU Relationship: The Origins and Spirit of Lomé (Kaye Whiteman)

Part II: An Anatomy of the ACP-EU Relationship

3. The EU and Africa: The Political Economy of an Asymmetrical Partnership (John Akokpari)

4. The EU and the Caribbean: The Necessity of Unity (Norman Girvan and Annita Montoute)

5. The EU and the Pacific: A Tale of Unfulfilled Expectations (Kaliopate Tavola)

Part III: ACP Experiences with the Economic Partnership Agreements

6. The Economic Partnership Agreements: An African Perspective (Peter H. Katjavivi)

7. South Africa, the EU, and the SADC Group Economic Partnership Agreement: Through the Negotiating Lens (Xavier Carim)

8. The Caribbean-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: A Caribbean Perspective (Anthony Peter Gonzales)

Part IV: New Issues in the ACP-EU Relationship

9. The EU’s Security Role in Africa: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” (Adekeye Adebajo)

10. ACP-EU Migration Policy (Anna Knoll)

11. Diasporas and Development in the ACP-EU Relationship (Keith Nurse and Ramona Ruggeri)

Part V: Looking Ahead

12. The ACP Ambassadorial Working Group on Future Perspectives of the ACP Group (Patrick Gomes)

13. The ACP, the EU, and the BRICS: Opportunities on the Horizon or Just a Mirage? (Kudrat Virk)

14. Conclusion

O autorze

Annita Montoute is Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, in Trinidad and Tobago.

Kudrat Virk is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.

Blurb

This book is a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). This partnership – the most comprehensive of its kind – remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the ACP regions. But, in order to sustain its relevance and effectiveness, it needs to adapt to an evolving global order characterised by the rise of new powers in the global South such as China, India, and Brazil, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its core focus on development cooperation with Europe. The authors in this volume examine the history of the ACP-EU partnership since 1975; the EU’s relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions individually; ACP experiences with economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU; and new political issues such as security, migration, and diasporas. Shedding light on the future prospects of this partnership, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on ACP-EU relations and related development issues, including trade, aid, security, and migration.