In: Library of international relations 20
This book is an in-depth study of one of the most important agreements in the recent history of EU-developing world relations: the Lomé convention--the principles upon which all relations between the states of the European Union and ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) countries are based. Over the course of its 25-year life, the Convention has been altered to suit the changing relationship of those states involved. This historical study not only charts the course of that vital relationship between haves and have-nots but also, in its changing focus and shifting concerns, reflects recent broad
In: The library of international relations 20
In: The Library of International Relations, 20
The author analyses the rise, evolution and replacement of the Lomé Convention. In the first part he deals with the origins of the Convention in the process of decolonization and the establishment of formal ties between the African countries an the EU. He also summarizes the content of the Convention and how this was modified in Lomé II and III. The following chapter provides a detailed analysis of the more far-reaching changes introduced in Lomé IV and places these changes in the context of the restructuring of North-South relations in the debt crisis and the rise of conditionality. The next chapter shows how adjustment conditionality was introduced into the terms of co-operation. The following two chapters detail the case of Zimbabwe in its experience of Lomé co-operation. The last chapter describes the replacement of the Lomé Convention in 2000 with a new agreement of development co-operation - the EU-ACP Partnership Agreement - and seeks to show how this innovation in EU-ACP relations further restructures this North-South relationship. (DÜI-Sbd)
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