The Routledge handbook of EU-Africa relations

"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU provided by leading experts in the field. Structured into five parts, the handbook provides an incisive look at the past, present and potential futures of EU- Africa relations. The cutting-edge chapters, cover themes like multilateralism, development assistance, institutions, gender equality and science and technology among others. Thoroughly researched, this book provides original reflections from a diversity of conceptual and theoretical perspectives, and experts in Africa, Europe and beyond. The handbook thus offers rich and comprehensive analyses of contemporary global politics as manifested in Africa and Europe. The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested and working in range of fields within the (sub)disciplines of African and EU Studies, European Politics, and International Studies"--

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part I Theorising Africa-EU relations through history -- Introduction to Part I -- Contextualising the theorising on Africa-EU relations -- African agency in theory or a brave new world for Africa-EU relations? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 1 International Relations theory: Comparative reflections on EU-Africa relations -- Structural pattern -- Realism and international anarchy: The case of EU-Africa relations -- Liberalism and EU-Africa interregional dependence -- EU-Africa relations in constructivist perspective -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- 2 Regionalism and interregionalism in EU-Africa relations -- From European to regional integration -- Beyond a Eurocentrist reading of African regionalism -- Postcolonial regionalism in Africa and the role of interregionalism with Europe -- EU-Africa relations through the lens of interregionalism -- Fluid regional delineations -- Interregionalism and asymmetry -- Regional cohesion -- Interregionalism and institutionalisation -- The interregionalism-regionalism nexus -- From interregionalism to interregionalisms -- Note -- Bibliography -- 3 Applying postcolonial approaches to studies of Africa-EU relations -- What are postcolonial approaches? -- Colonial legacy, historical amnesia and decentring Europe -- The meaning of partnership: Paternalism and the ontological Other -- Market liberalisation and a changing world order in a postcolonial global economy -- Politicisation and regional actorness: Rearticulating subjectivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II Evolving governance in EU-Africa relations.