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Informationen zum Autor Mark Langan is a senior lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University, UK. His research examines the intersection of global trade and international development. He is particularly interested in EU trade and development co-operation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, and studies of moral political economy. Sophia Price is head of Politics and International Relations at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research focuses on feminist political economy, pro-poor development strategies, and the external relations of the European Union, particularly its trade and aid relations with the Africa, Pacific and Caribbean Group of States. Zusammenfassung This book examines the EU’s contributions to sustainable development in Africa. It casts a critical light upon the impact of EU trade and aid interventions for developing countries. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Third World Thematics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The EU and ‘pro-poor’ contributions to sustainable development in the post-2015 consensus Mark Langan & Sophia Price 2. Framing the climate-development nexus in the European Union Frederik De Roeck, Sarah Delputte & Jan Orbie 3. Managing neo-liberalisation through the Sustainable Development Agenda: the EU-ACP trade relationship and world market expansion Sophia Price & Alex Nunn 4. Regional encounters: explaining the divergent responses to the EU’s support for regional integration in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific Tony Heron & Peg Murray-Evans 5. Equal partnership between unequal regions? Assessing deliberative parliamentary debate in ACP-EU relations Sarah Delputte & Yentyl Williams 6. Feigned ambition. Analysing the emergence, evolution and performance of the ACP Group of States Niels Keijzer 7. Promoting sustainable development or legitimising free trade? Civil society mechanisms in EU trade agreements Jan Orbie, Deborah Martens, Myriam Oehri & Lore Van den Putte 8. The EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements with Africa: ‘Decent Work’ and the challenge of trade union solidarity Stephen R. Hurt 9. Oil and cocoa in the political economy of Ghana-EU relations: whither sustainable development? Mark Langan & Sophia Price ...
