Europe, Diplomacy and Development: New Issues in EU Relations with Developing Countries

by C. Cosgrove-Sacks

Overview

The book focuses on the EU in the world, examining the EU as an international actor, and assesses the role of human rights, sustainable development, humanitarian assistance, and aid coherence and complementarity as important elements of EU policies towards developing countries. It assembles student essays from College of Europe, Bruges, within an innovative multi-disciplinary framework and will be of interest to those concerned with international relations, diplomacy, law, economics, and European studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349661688
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/26/2001
Edition description:	1st ed. 2001
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

SVEVA BARBAGALLO Completing a doctorate in European Community Law, University of Trieste ANDREW BELL Masters Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe, Bruges JAMES BOURKE Postgraduate Student, Harvard Law School GIANLUCA BRUSCO Completing a Master's Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe CAMILLO CATARCI Trainee at the European Commission EUGENIA CORRALES JIMENEZ Researcher, Bruges Initiative for Opening the Social Sciences, College of Europe ANA REIS COUTINHO Trainee, Southern Africa Unit for the Directorate General on Development at the European Commission DANIELA DALIA European Affairs Office of British Company in Brussels ICIAR DE CHAVARRI URETA Completing a Master's Degree in European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe GENEVRA FORWOOD Master's Degree in European Politics and Administration, College of Bruges MARCO GIORELLO University Teaching Assistant, Genoa SIMON GUENGUEN-LEVINSON Master's Degree in Advanced European Economic Studies, College of Europe ANNE HAGLUND Lecturer in Political Science, Växjö University ROLAND KLAGES Trainee Lawyer JIMENA REYES-DELGADO Student at the French Bar School, working for an American law firm in Paris IRENE SACRISTAN SANCHEZ Manager for Central and Eastern Europe for a Spanish firm specialising in technical assistance for institution building and legal reform in transition countries GERALD SIMPSON Graduate at Law currentlyqualifying as a solicitor in London

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Glossary of Acronyms Introduction PART I: THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE WORLD The EU as an International Actor; C.Cosgrove-Sacks European Union Support for Regional Integration Initiatives in Developing Countries; C.Santos The European Commission's Institutional Framework for Development Policy; I.D.C.Ureta PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY IN EU POLICIES TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES The European Union's Human Rights policy Towards Developing Countries: A Constitutional and Legal Analysis; I.S.Sanchez The Clauses of Democratic Conditionality in the European Union's External Relations; M.Giorello The European Union's Human Rights Activity within the United Nations Commission for Human Rights; J.Bourke Eurocentrism and Political Conditionality; G.Brusco PART III: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EU POLICIES TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES The European Community's Approach to Sustainable Development in its Relations with the Developing World; G.Simpson Social Sustainable Development; E.C.Jimenez Biodiversity Preservation Issues in the European Union's Development Cooperation Policy; C.Catarci PART IV: EU POLICIES REGARDING HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE The European Union and Humanitarian Assistance: Definition, International Context and Developments; A.Haglund EU Humanitarian Cooperation with Partners: The Partnership Framework Agreement; D.Dalia The European Union's Humanitarian Assistance as a Political Tool; R.Klages PART V: COHERENCE AND COORDINATION IN EU DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY Evolution of the Legal Framework of the European Union's Development Cooperation Policy; S.Barbagallo The Quest for Coherence Between EU Policies: An Unattainable Goal?; A.Bell Complementarity of the EU's Development Policy; G.Forwood Coordination of the European Union's Development Cooperation Policy: Analysis and Future Prospects; A.C.Coutinho PART VI: GLOBALIZATION AND EU DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION POLICY WTO and European Community Trade Policies Towards Developing Countries; J.R.Delgado The European Union's Development Cooperation Policy and Financial Globalization; S.Gueguen-Levinson Europe, Diplomacy and Development Cooperation with the ACP Group; C.Cosgrove-Sacks Index