“S/he Who Pays the Piper”: Examining the (De)legitimising Influence of European Union’s Financial Support to the African Union

Fágbàyíbọ̀, Babátúndé

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“…At best, they are ambivalent towards African economic integration and the forward-looking Agenda 2063’ ( 2020 , p. 202). Fagbayibo ( 2022 ) echoes their conclusion, highlighting the financial and moral dependence of the African Union on the EU, and the fragmentation this precipitated. He questions whether the programmes can lay claim to pan-Africanism while being funded in near totality by the EU; are sustainable (because of the same dependence); and are legitimate when we account for the EU’s forceful influence of policy directions.…”

Section: The Racism Of International Economic Lawmentioning

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Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law

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Smith

2022

Law Critique

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International economic law is peculiar. It claims universal character, yet eschews engagement with many, if not all, the racialised features of the global political economy. Its scholars mostly ignore imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism; they exclude slavery, predation, and racism altogether. In the following article, we draw upon Walter Rodney’s dialectics of development to offer a racial capitalist critique of international economic law. The disciplinary boundaries and operative logic normalised by its denizens corral us in a white, Eurocentric episteme. Ahistoricism, decontextualisation, and externalisation are three epistemic devices at the forefront of the exclusionary discourse of IEL. In this space, the histories and epistemologies of Black peoples are ghettoised, treated as alien to the framework. After identifying this bias, we use the Black Radical Tradition to evaluate IEL’s amenability to the racial capitalism critique.

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Section: The Racism Of International Economic Lawmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Consider the position of the EU, which, as Fagbayibo reports, talks left while negotiating right ( 2022 , pp. 288–289).…”

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Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law

Attar

Smith

2022

Law Critique

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EU Efforts to Increase the Pandemic Preparedness on a Global Scale Before the COVID-19 Outbreak

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2023

Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development

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“S/he Who Pays the Piper”: Examining the (De)legitimising Influence of European Union’s Financial Support to the African Union

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law

Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law

EU Efforts to Increase the Pandemic Preparedness on a Global Scale Before the COVID-19 Outbreak

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