EU Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century(European Association of Development Institutes Publications)

On many fronts, EU development policy is at a critical juncture. In the face of major new challenges, such as the current impasse in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations, and increasing concerns over security threats, the European Union is having to rethink much of its development policy both with its ‘near neighbours’ and in the South. How has the process of enlargement impacted on EU development policy? What would a ‘development-friendly’ trade policy look like? What kind of relations should the EU aspire to with North Africa and Middle East? Can the EU design a coherent approach towards developing countries or will its other interests, such as protectionism in agriculture or its neighbourhood policy, constrain its development policy? This edited volume, drawing on the expertise of well-known specialists in their respective fields, provides a critical overview of EU development policy and the challenges that it must confront in an increasingly volatile and changing world.

Table of Contents:
Foreword, Ch.1: The Evolution of EU Development Policy, Ch.2: The Enlarged European Union and the Developing World: What Future?, Ch.3: European Development Policymaking: Globalisation and the Post-Lomé World, Ch.4: Clash of Civilisations of Intercultural Dialogue? Challenges for EU Medirerranean Policies, Ch.5: To Reciprocate or Not to Reciprocate? Is that the Question? – A CGE Simulation of the Euro-Mediterranean Agreements, Ch.6: Challenges of Forging a Partnership Between the European Union and Latin America , Ch.7: Th e EU and Democracy Promotion in Africa:High on Rhetoric, Low on Delivery? , Ch.8:A Critical Assessment of Proposed EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements , Ch.9: Creating an Development-Friendly EU Trade Policy, Ch.10: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Whither EU Development Policy?, About the Authors

About the Author :
Andrew Mold is Senior Economist at the oeCD Development Centre in Paris.

Review :
[-]" This excellent book, covering the history, present and future of Europe's relations with developing countries, explores the challenges and problems that determine EU development policy. ". Professor Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford - "This volume of collected papers provides many interesting insights into the European development strategy, and suggests a major rethink in a number of areas, particularly with regards to allowing developing country more policy space to devise their own policies. The book advances strong arguments that deserve serious attention."[-][-]Ha-Joon Chang, Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge