The Calm after the Storm: Plurilateral Challenges to the Post‐2020 EU–ACP Partnership

Carbone, Maurizio

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“…At the same time, the re‐definition of local activists pursuing LGBTI rights as Northern‐funded and ‐recognized CSOs play into the homophobe pretext of many Southern governments as those being ‘foreign’, substantiating Zürn and de Wilde's (2016) claim that contestation and resulting politicization of EU efforts to promote human rights is highly interwoven with the question of sovereignty. The negotiations of the post‐Cotonou agreement illustrate that the contentious issues of migration and sexual rights continue to politicize EU‐ACP relations (Carbone, 2019).…”

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The Politicization of LGBTI Human Rights Norms in the EU‐Uganda Development Partnership

Saltnes

Thiel

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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The EU is committed to promoting human rights through its development policy. This article argues that its expansive human rights framework has led to EU‐internal and outside‐in politicization of LGBTI rights in Uganda. It views contestation as a mechanism of politicization and suggests two paths through which contestation occurs; based on the normative core or on the application of human rights conditionality. We establish these paths through a case study of politicization of LGBTI rights promotion in the Uganda–EU partnership. While member states' policies are more affected by political pressure from domestic constituents, EU institutions aim to depoliticize the issue and prioritizes diplomatic channels. Conversely, conditionality operates as a driver for contestation in beneficiary states. Whereas postcolonial studies interpret claims of universal rights as neo‐colonial intervention, our findings highlight a more nuanced applicatory contestation by rights activists. These actors insert themselves as change agents aiming to reshape the policies of international norm promoters.

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The Politicization of LGBTI Human Rights Norms in the EU‐Uganda Development Partnership

Saltnes

Thiel

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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“…The fate of the ACP Group, in fact, was intertwined with the preparatory process of the successor to the Cotonou Agreement set to expire in February 2020. In December 2017, the European Commission launched a proposal, endorsed by the EU member states in June 2018, for a hybrid framework, which would preserve relations with the ACP Group but would create three regional pillars (Carbone 2019b). This proposal, which was justified by increased regionalisation across ACP states, was perceived as an attempt to further undermine the integrity of the ACP Group (Interviews with ACP ambassadors and with OACPS Secretariat officials, March-May 2018).…”

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There is life beyond the European Union: revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

Carbone

2021

Third World Quarterly

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The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, established in June 1975 by the Georgetown Agreement, was generally seen as an emanation of the European Union (EU). This article presents a non-EU-centric perspective by discussing various initiatives aimed at fostering intra-ACP cooperation and promoting common ACP positions in international settings. Furthermore, it analyses various threats to the survival of the ACP Group, some linked to its allegedly ineffective performance as an organisation, others related to the rise of competitors, most notably the African Union. Importantly, it delves into the reform process that culminated in the adoption of the revised Georgetown Agreement in December 2019, which transformed the ACP Group into the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), with the aim of establishing it as a relevant and influential global actor and reducing its dependence on the EU. In revisiting the evolution of the OACPS, this article identifies an intentions-capability gap, specifically between the often grandiose statements of official discourse and the institutional and financial resources devoted to implementing stated objectives.

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“…These include the challenges of working together in a policy area defined as a 'shared competence' in EU legalese, meaning that the policies of the EU institutions should not compromise the ability of member states to pursue their bilateral development policies and cooperation programmes.1 This structural issue has in turn made the question of how member states and EU institutions should work together a matter of interpretation and constant re-negotiation, resulting in inherent challenges of coordination, both at the strategic/policy level and at the level of the implementation of programmes and projects in partner countries (Koch 2015). and development, as well as clear incoherencies with member state policies like migration, tax and fiscal regimes, or arms sales (Adelle and Jordan 2014;Carbone andKeijzer 2016, Furness andGänzle 2017). At a conceptual level, these issues have been debated not only by scholars of EU development policy but also as part of the broader external relations discussions of the EU's 'actorness' or, its nature, purpose and effectiveness as a global actor (Bretherton and Vogler 2006;Niemann and Bretherton 2013).…”

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EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity

Furness

Ghica

Lightfoot

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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 Calm after the Storm: Plurilateral Challenges to the Post‐2020 EU–ACP Partnership

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

The Politicization of LGBTI Human Rights Norms in the EU‐Uganda Development Partnership

The Politicization of LGBTI Human Rights Norms in the EU‐Uganda Development Partnership

There is life beyond the European Union: revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States

EU development policy: evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity

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