The European Union’s Development Policy: A Balancing Act between ‘A More Comprehensive Approach’ and Creeping Securitization

Furness, Mark; Gänzle, Stefan

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“…In doing so, we also conceptualize the relations between development policy and other external policy domains. Although there is a rich literature on policy nexuses, most notably with regard to the development–security nexus (Furness and Gänzle, 2016; Hout, 2010; Youngs, 2008); the development–migration nexus (Chou, 2006; Lavenex and Kunz, 2008; Schöfberger, 2019); the development–democracy nexus (Crawford, 2000; del Biondo and Orbie, 2014; Hackenesch, 2018); or the development–trade nexus (Carbone and Orbie, 2014; Elgström, 2009; Young and Peterson, 2013), this literature is relatively light in theorizing, a finding that also holds for research on European development policy more broadly (Delputte and Orbie, 2018, p. 292‐293). The concept of horizontal politicization also allows us to look at these dynamics in a more open‐ended way and to take into consideration reverse dynamics where, for instance, development policy influences trade, security or international climate policy.…”

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Development Policy under Fire? The Politicization of European External Relations^*

Hackenesch

Bergmann

Orbie

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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In the past few years decision‐making processes and the normative underpinnings of EU external relations have become subject to intense debate in the European institutions, member states and the wider public. Previous research suggests that there is variation in the extent to which individual domains of EU external relations are politicized and contested. This special issue aims to theorize further and investigate empirically this, using the example of European development policy and its relations with other external policies. We introduce two new mechanisms that drive politicization dynamics. We argue that politicization can be diffused horizontally from one policy field to another, which we call horizontal politicization. We also investigate how the politicization of EU external policies in third countries occurs and influences politicization dynamics in the EU, which we call outside‐in politicization. The introduction to the special issue presents our theoretical approach and summarizes the key findings from the special issue.

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“…Scholars working on European development policy have analysed the securitization and instrumentalization of European aid for other foreign policy purposes (Furness and Gänzle, 2016;Olivié and Pérez, 2019). These analyses sometimes refer to the politicization of aid (Dany, 2015;Hilpold, 2017).…”

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Development Policy under Fire? The Politicization of European External Relations^*

Hackenesch

Bergmann

Orbie

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Therefore, many experts, researchers, and NGOs point to a growing politicisation of EU aid, whether in the form of securitisation (Furness and Gänzle 2016) or broader instrumentalisation. This is most striking when it includes humanitarian aid, which should be governed by principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence (Dany 2015).…”

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Towards a Functional Division of Labour in EU development cooperation post-2020.

Kugiel¹

2020

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Division of labour (DoL) was recognized as a priority in EU development cooperation policy a decade ago, but has lost importance in recent years. Though the Union still promotes joint programming for better aid coordination, other EU interests took precedence. This reflects general trend of instrumentalisation of European development cooperation, which is less focused on traditional goals like poverty eradication or aid effectiveness but serves more political, security, and economic self-interests. This paper traces the evolution of the European approach to DoL and highlights the major reasons for its limited successes. It claims that among most important ones was the imprecise and inadequate description of the EU's own comparative advantage and added value. The main aim of this analysis is to propose the concept functional DoL in which the European institutions focus development assistance more on the regional level while leaving national programmes to the Member States. This would better utilise the Union's unique expertise and help in more strategic allocation of EU aid. Though such a radical shift seems improbable in the short term for reasons including vested interests and path dependency, the EU can already start refocusing on regional development-cooperation programmes. This would be in line with EU external policy goals and allow it to boost regional cooperation while competing with emerging donors like China.

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“…First, the disconnect between development policy and security policy has increasingly been perceived as an incoherence that needs to be addressed (Furness and Gänzle 2016). As the EU's ambitions in foreign and security policy were growing since the 2000s, the position of development needed to be reconsidered.…”

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2020

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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 European Union’s Development Policy: A Balancing Act between ‘A More Comprehensive Approach’ and Creeping Securitization

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