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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.
List 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
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
Summary
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.
