Monitoring a region in crisis: the European Union in West Africa
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In: Chaillot paper 96
In: Global affairs, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 238-239
ISSN: 2334-0479
In: Politics, Volume 36, Issue 4, p. 495-507
ISSN: 0263-3957
In: Politics, Volume 36, Issue 4, p. 495-507
ISSN: 1467-9256
In this article, the author reflects on how she and her students were able to draw on elements of popular culture to develop their understanding of Africa's international relations. The article shows, in particular, how the use of popular culture material has, as the relevant pedagogical literature suggests, strengthened student engagement and deepened their learning experience, notably by offering them greater freedom in their analysis and interpretation of the ideas and issues studied in class. Most importantly, the use of popular culture has helped them consider the very wide range of voices and views on Africa, its politics and international relations, but also apprehend popular culture as a political arena – one where political images and ideas are shaped that durably inform and influence international relations and politics.
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 115-117
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: Perspectives on European politics and society, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 621-637
ISSN: 1568-0258
In: Perspectives on European politics and society: journal of intra-European dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 621-638
ISSN: 1570-5854
In: Third world thematics: a TWQ journal, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 1-8
ISSN: 2379-9978
In: African security, Volume 6, Issue 3-4, p. 191-210
ISSN: 1939-2214
International audience ; The international community currently favours an approach to development that stresses a triangular linkage between security, good governance and economic development. This approach clearly informs the European Union's agenda in Africa, which has progressively integrated governance and security elements. This paper will show that this agenda is at least as much determined by the bureaucratic and national affiliations of the concerned EU actors as it is by African realities and international trends. African security indeed triggers a competition between the different European institutions, eager to be the driving force for a policy that can offer some additional resources and autonomy. The consistency and the credibility of the EU security policy in Africa will therefore depend on the responses provided to these institutional rivalries.
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 789-814
ISSN: 0022-0388
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In: The journal of development studies, Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 789-814
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: Journal of Development Studies, Volume 45, Issue 5, p. 789-814
The international community currently favours an approach to development that stresses a triangular linkage between security, good governance and economic development. This approach clearly informs the European Union's agenda in Africa, which has progressively integrated governance and security elements. This paper will show that this agenda is at least as much determined by the bureaucratic and national affiliations of the concerned EU actors as it is by African realities and international trends. African security indeed triggers a competition between the different European institutions, eager to be the driving force for a policy that can offer some additional resources and autonomy. The consistency and the credibility of the EU security policy in Africa will therefore depend on the responses provided to these institutional rivalries.
In: Journal of contemporary European research: JCER, Volume 8, Issue 4
ISSN: 1815-347X
This article focuses on the negotiations that the European Commission, with the formal support of France, Italy and Spain, opened with Senegal in 2008 for a mobility partnership agreement. Mobility partnerships, as defined by the Commission in 2007, are a new EU (multilateral) instrument for managing migratory flows into the Union. The negotiations with Senegal were indefinitely suspended in 2009 and are now widely considered as having failed. This article sets out to identify the factors that contributed to the suspension of talks. It shows that failure can be attributed to a complex web of factors originating in the specific Senegalese, European and Senegal-EU political landscapes and jointly contributing to an unfavourable cost-benefit calculation by the French and Senegalese parties to the negotiation, to an unclear and awkward negotiating strategy on the part of the European Commission and to incoherent, EU and Senegalese, foreign policies. This, in turn, points to the complex task of concluding multilateral agreements on issues as politically sensitive, for both parties, as migration.
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