Introduction

Beringer, Sarah L.; Maier, Sylvia; Thiel, Markus

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“…EU development policy is increasingly 'situated between the bloc's normative ideals and global geopolitical realities within which it is embedded' (Beringer et al 2019). So on the one hand we have this type of call:…”

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“…These include deciding what the overall amount for EU development budget will be, how the budget will be used and how it will be managed (Gavas 2018). The various pressures on the Commission, from Brexit to the migration challenge, are contributing to the 'inward looking agenda' of the EU (Beringer et al 2019). Hence, we see an increased spotlight on how and where development funds are spent and by whom (Koch et al 2018).…”

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“…Brexit is not the only contextual issue influencing EU development policy. The euro crisis and the rise of populist governments all work against development in that many governments wish to focus the limited spending at home (see Bodenstein et al 2017;Beringer et al 2019). Hence we need to explore whether the money in the EU budgets supports the EU's external norms.…”

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The Future of EU Development Policy Post-2020

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2020

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The Future of EU Development Policy Post-2020

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2020

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“…We have shown how the EU's frames of development policy have moved over the decade and why. Brexit, the euro crisis and the rise of populist governments all work against development in that many governments wish to focus the limited spending at home (see Beringer, Maier, & Thiel, 2019;Bodenstein, Faust, & Furness, 2017). Olivié and Pérez (2019, p. 193) argue that various arguments can co-exist within aid narrative but that the emphases can change over time.…”

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“…EU development policy has attempted to align the EU's own desire to tackle poverty reduction in its own way, with broader global shifts in the definition and use of aid policy, and the rise of both human security and sustainable development as overarching global narratives. This foreign policy clash means that EU development policy is increasingly "situated between the bloc's normative ideals and global geopolitical realities within which it is embedded" (Beringer et al, 2019). The new narrative around Team Europe shows again that the EU wishes to frame itself by its values, something recently explored in relation to the COVID-19 by Burni et al, 2021.…”

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Shifting priorities of the EU as a development actor: context and consequences

Hadfield

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2021

Global Affairs

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EU development policy conforms reliably to a stable and predictable policy-cycle between 1957 until the early 2000s. After that, we see a shift towards more explicitly frame-based outputs utilising the mechanism of policy nexuses. This article, drawing on a range of primary policy documents and key case studies, illustrates the difference between the first era by which EU development retains a stable process within the boundaries of the policy cycle and the subsequent shift to the use of 'framing' to bind a series of separate activities to the core of development policy via the use of 'policy nexuses'. The article concludes with reflections on the resulting seminal changes to the EU's overall approach to development, and its implications for the EU as a development actor.

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This article introduces the special issue on the evolution of European Union development policy, against the background of fundamental challenges that have emerged since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The special issue's objective is to highlight the complex dynamics of a policy area that is called on to address the massive challenges of poverty, inequality, healthcare capacity, climate change, insecurity and weak governance in countries of the global south, and at the same time support European foreign policy objectives including political stability, migration management, access to resources and markets. In this introductory article, we attempt to sketch the broad outlines of the conceptual and practical dilemmas faced by a policy area that is supposed to be able to fix almost any problem. We observe that European development policy's evolution is driven by the tension between its raison d'être as a concrete expression of global solidarity and international cooperation, and its increasing instrumentalisation in the service of European economic and security interests. We highlight some of the key challenges that have emerged in the last decade, including rising populist nationalism and Brexit within Europe, the changing nature of relationships between Europe and countries who receive EU aid, and the changing nature of development cooperation itself, exemplified by the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. We outline the specific contributions the articles in this special issue make to research and policy debates on the themes we raise in this introduction. We conclude that the battle between the forces of solidarity and instrumentality has evolved EU development policy into an impossibly complex arena of competing norms, practices and institutions, which raises many open questions for future research.

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The Future of EU Development Policy Post-2020

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Shifting priorities of the EU as a development actor: context and consequences

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