Common and intersecting interests: EU-Caribbean relations and the post-Cotonou EU-ACP partnership
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 109, Heft 5, S. 526-541
ISSN: 0035-8533
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In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 109, Heft 5, S. 526-541
ISSN: 0035-8533
World Affairs Online
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 109, Heft 5, S. 526-541
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: SWP Comment, Band 1/2019
The EU is currently negotiating a successor to its Cotonou Agreement of year 2000 with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. The political and economic context has changed enormously over the past two decades, with trade relations between the EU and the more developed ACP countries now largely regulated by bilateral and regional Economic Partnership Agreements. Since 2015, in line with international sustainability targets, social and environmental aspects must be taken into account in international treaties, while in 2018 the African Union (AU) agreed to establish an African Continental Free Trade Area. A successor to Cotonou offers an opportunity to modernise the rules on issues including investment, services and migration. This could also generate greater interest in the talks in Germany and the EU. But the cooperation need to be placed on a new foundation and the African states will have to decide whether they want to negotiate together, as a continent. (Autorenreferat)
In: South African journal of international affairs: journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 481-496
ISSN: 1938-0275
In: Jeune Afrique l'intelligent: hebdomadaire politique et économique international ; édition internationale, Heft 2120, S. 82
ISSN: 0021-6089
In: Nord-Süd aktuell: Vierteljahreszeitschrift für Nord-Süd und Süd-Süd-Entwicklungen, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 338-343
ISSN: 0933-1743
World Affairs Online
In: Africa research bulletin. Economic, financial and technical series, Band 60, Heft 8
ISSN: 1467-6346
In: Population: revue bimestrielle de l'Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques. French edition, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 172
ISSN: 0718-6568, 1957-7966
In: Journal of contemporary European research: JCER, Band 16, Heft 2
ISSN: 1815-347X
With the Cotonou Agreement due to expire in 2020, formal negotiations towards a new partnership agreement between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states began in September 2018. Based on the acceptance of the EU's negotiating mandate, the new arrangement will be primarily organised via three specific regional protocols with each of the ACP regions. Meanwhile, the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) launched in 2007, has seen the African Union (AU) gain increased prominence as an institutional partner of the EU. Given its ambitious pan-African agenda, it adopted an alternative 'African' vision for future EU-ACP relations, to the mandate agreed by the ACP states and expressed a willingness to become directly involved in the negotiations. This article contributes an important new case-study to the existing literature on 'African agency' in international politics by considering the scope for Africa to exert agency within the post-Cotonou negotiations, given the negotiation of a specific regional compact with Africa. It adopts a structurally embedded view of agency, based on Cox's understanding of historical structures, as a fit between institutions, ideas and material relations. The central argument is that, in comparison to the negotiation of the Cotonou Agreement two decades ago, there is greater scope for African agency. However, both the ideational and material aspects of Africa's relationship with the EU, condition the limits to how effective such agency might be. Moreover, tensions at the institutional level between the ACP and AU further undermine the potential for effective African agency.
In: Mezinárodní politika: MP, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 20-22
ISSN: 0543-7962
In: Jeune Afrique, Heft 2769, S. 20-21
In: Jeune Afrique l'intelligent: hebdomadaire politique et économique international ; édition internationale, Heft 2155, S. 142-144
ISSN: 0021-6089