The ACP Group and the EU Development Partnership: Beyond the North-South Debate - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319454919 ISBN 13: 9783319454917

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). A core theme that runs through the work is that the ACP’s partnership with the EU remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions, but needs to adapt to changes in the global political economy, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU, to sustain its relevance and effectiveness. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its origins in, and core focus on, development cooperation with Europe. The authors in this volume examine the history of the ACP-EU partnership since 1975; the EU’s relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions individually; ACP experiences with economic partnership agreements with the EU; and new political issues, in particular, security, migration, and diasporas. Shedding light on the future prospects of this relationship, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on the ACP-EU relationship and related development issues, including trade, aid, security, and migration.

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From the Back Cover:

This book is a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU). This partnership – the most comprehensive of its kind – remains an important framework for addressing development challenges in the ACP regions. But, in order to sustain its relevance and effectiveness, it needs to adapt to an evolving global order characterised by the rise of new powers in the global South such as China, India, and Brazil, as well as internal developments in both the ACP and the EU. This is crucial for the ACP group, in particular, given its core focus on development cooperation with Europe. The authors in this volume examine the history of the ACP-EU partnership since 1975; the EU’s relationship with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific regions individually; ACP experiences with economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU; and new political issues such as security, migration, and diasporas. Shedding light on the future prospects of this partnership, this book will be of interest to both scholars and policymakers working on ACP-EU relations and related development issues, including trade, aid, security, and migration.

About the Author:

Annita Montoute is Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, in Trinidad and Tobago.
Kudrat Virk is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 3319454919
• ISBN 13: 9783319454917
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 403
• Editor: Montoute Annita, Virk Kudrat