Cotonou: Slowly Undoing Lomé's Concept of Partnership

Raffer, Kunibert

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“…However, the disjuncture between the EU’s self-perceived role and that of others’ views on the organisation is again highlighted by the very concept of ‘partnership’. Although a fashionable term amongst all main development agencies and IFIs, the possibility of genuine equality in the relationship has long been in doubt, reducing the term ‘partnership’ to mere rhetorical status (see Hurt, 2003; Raffer, 2001).…”

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“…In the context of the continuing crisis in the WTO’s negotiations on further trade rounds, the EU’s project to promote reciprocity as a key element of its EPAs is a main target of the organisations, with claims that they are neocolonial in nature and nakedly in the interest of EU-based multinational corporations. Raffer (2001), in fact, has asserted that Free Trade Areas (FTAs) must…be expected to reflect mainly if not solely European interests—to soften the pressures of globalisation on Europe, as the Commission formulated, giving European exporters an advantage over other industrialised countries. This does not suggest development considerations as the main reason.…”

Section: Economic Partnership Agreements (Epas)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bait and Switch: The European Union’s Incoherency towards Africa

Taylor

2016

Insight on Africa

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The European Union's (EU's) relations with Africa remain dominated by notions of partnerships via development cooperation and inconsistencies regarding economic dealings that often exert powerfully negative images of the EU as a collective unit that gives with one hand but takes back with the other. The hegemony of neoliberalism within the EU serves the broad interests of outwardly orientated fractions of the EU's ruling elites, and navigating the tensions that this creates in any consistent set of development policies remains a key challenge to the EU-Africa relationship, particularly when these same actors practice de facto mercantilism in certain areas of policy whilst proclaiming their commitment to liberalisation. Such hypocrisy invites scorn and resentment within Africa. Handicapped by the divergent interests of its various members, the question remains whether the EU can move from individual action to a genuinely common set of policies towards the continent-beyond the rhetoric.

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Bait and Switch: The European Union’s Incoherency towards Africa

Taylor

2016

Insight on Africa

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“…The concept of partnership, in line with other development agencies, has been fully embraced by the EU in the language of the Cotonou Agreement. However, the genuine equality of the relationship has been criticized by a number of commentators who have described this use of the term 'partnership' as merely rhetorical (Hurt 2003;Raffer 2001;Van de Walle 1999).…”

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Africa in International Politics

2004

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Africa has long been considered marginal to the world in both economic and political terms. This important volume seeks to rectify this, arguing that there has been a continual flow of both ideas and goods between Africa, Europe, Asia and later the Americas. Indeed, Africa has never existed apart from world politics, but has been unavoidably entangled in the ebb and flow of events and changing configurations of power. Africa in International Politics examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organisations towards it. Drawing on critical approaches from International Relations, International Political Economy and Security Studies, the book sets out a framework for understanding Africa's place in world politics and provides detailed analyses of the major external states and international organisations currently influencing African politics. At the same time, Africa is viewed as a player in its own right whose behaviour and agency acts to define, in many cases, the policies and even identities of external agents. This book provides the first comprehensive, critical and up-to-date analysis of the policies of the major external actors towards Africa after the Cold War. The chapters focus on the policies of the United States, the

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“…Another example is provided by the relationship between the EU/EC and the ACP-countries (the former colonies of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific). The treaties of Yaoundé (1963), Lomé (1975, 1979, 1984) and Coto nou (2000 between these two groups of states illustrate a major shift in their strategic cooperation (on the following see Raffer 2002). The first of these trea tises established a nonreciprocal system of preferences for the ACP countries and included a contractual right to aid.…”

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Development Discourse and Global History

Ziai¹

2015

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The manner in which people have been talking and writing about 'development' and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time.Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genea logical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development discourse back to late colonialism and notes the significant discontinuities that led to the establishment of a new discourse and its accompanying industry. This book goes on to describe the contestations, appropriations and transformations of the con cept. It shows how some of the trends in development discourse since the crisis of the 1980s -the emphasis on participation and ownership, sustainable devel opment and free markets -are incompatible with the original rules and thus lead to serious contradictions. The Eurocentric, authoritarian and depoliticiz ing elements in development discourse are uncovered, whilst still recognizing its progressive appropriations. The author concludes by analysing the old and new features of development discourse which can be found in the debate on Sustain able Development Goals and discussing the contribution of discourse analysis to development studies.This book is aimed at researchers and students in development studies, global history and discourse analysis as well as an interdisciplinary audience from inter national relations, political science, sociology, geography, anthropology, language and literary studies.

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Cotonou: Slowly Undoing Lomé's Concept of Partnership

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Bait and Switch: The European Union’s Incoherency towards Africa

Bait and Switch: The European Union’s Incoherency towards Africa

Africa in International Politics

Development Discourse and Global History

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