European Union Development Policy [Hardcover]

An authoritative and wide-ranging analysis of current issues and dilemmas in the European Union's relations with the developing world. The book brings together politicians, academics and policy-makers to address recent experience and the way ahead after the EU's leading policy, the Lome Convention, expires in February 2000. Development policy in the various member states and at EU level and the prospects for furthering the international community's human rights and good governance agenda are examined in detail. This thorough assessment of one of the EU's oldest, most important and yet little known policy fields will be of use to scholars and students of development, of European integration and international relations.List of Abbreviations Introduction; M. Lister The UK's View of the Future of European Development Cooperation; Baroness Chalker Fair Trade Needs Access to Court; Michael Hindley The Lom?onvention, Human Rights and Europe; Lord Plumb DL, MEP European Development Policy; F. Hamburgr Europe's Development Policy; M. Lister The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, Experience of Partnership with the European Union; C. Greenidge Bureaucratic Interests and European Aid to sub-Saharan Africa; G. Rye Olsen Does European Aid Work? An Ethiopian Case Study; S. Maxwell Reform in the British and European Community Aid Programmes-Implications for the Pacific Countries; A. Hewitt Human Rights and Democracy in EU Development Cooperation; G. Crawford

'There is a crying need for a comprehensive analysis of the orientation of the European Union to the development of the countries and peoples of the South. This book makes an excellent start in this direction. It will profit both academics and policy-makers to make a careful study of its content.' - Professor T.V. Sathymurthy, University of York

`As North-South relations become increasingly important in international affairs, the role of the European Union in development cooperation becomel“!