Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement

This edited volume provides a timely and critical analysis of Africa-EU relations in the new Samoa Agreement phase of the long standing 'Eurafrican' relationship.

This edited volume provides a timely and critical analysis of Africa EU Relations in the new Samoa Agreement phase of the long standing 'Eurafrican' relationship.

Drawing on a range of critical perspectives and contributions it moves beyond Eurocentric visions of policy co operation on development to highlight three core themes that frame the analysis within this volume: the new scramble for Africa, Europe's ontological security and the securitisation of development and African agency. In doing so, it assesses EU actors' engagement with African institutions in relation to key areas of policy collaboration, including trade, development, health, migration and security. In this context, it examines whether the 'partnership' offers African states and regional institutions a genuine pathway to 'development' or whether historical power asymmetries remain entrenched - and perhaps even exacerbated - through the new Africa EU Agreement.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners involved in Development Studies, EU studies, Africa EU Relations, African politics and International Relations and more broadly to International Political Economy and Comparative Regionalism.

Autorentext

Sophia Price is Professor of International Political Economy and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck College University of London, UK, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Mark Langan is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at King's College London, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A New Phase in Africa-EU cooperation? 2. The New Scramble for Africa: Impact of insecurity and democratic fragility on Africa-EU relations 3. Development finance in EU-OACPS relations: From Wall Street to Schuman Square? 4. The Samoa Agreement and Global Health Objectives: Problematising EU Efforts for Healthier Citizenries in Africa 5. Africa-EU Migration at a Cross Road? 6. EU-Africa cooperation on security, peace and humanitarian aid in the post-Cotonou era: An asymmetric partnership 7. The Samoa Agreement and Africa-EU Interregionalism 8. The sites, actors and practices of inter-regionalism between African regional organizations and the EU: Zooming in on ECOWAS-EU relations 9. Assessing the gender provisions within the Africa-EU relationship 10. Conclusion