A New Approach to EU-ACP Cooperation - The Shaping, Negotiation and Implications of the Cotonou Agreement
(2007)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- On 23 June 2000, the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states
signed the Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid agreement which represents a new
approach to EU-ACP cooperation. For instance, it provides for the non-reciprocal
trade preferences previously enjoyed by the ACP states to be replaced with
regional free trade agreements. The aim of this essay is, firstly, to examine the
EU's motives behind introducing the innovations of the Cotonou Agreement, and
secondly, to analyse how the EU managed to force them through in the EU-ACP
negotiations despite resistance from the ACP states. Thirdly, the potential
implications for the ACP states of the new liberal trade regime that the Cotonou
Agreement entails will be examined.... (More) - On 23 June 2000, the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states
signed the Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid agreement which represents a new
approach to EU-ACP cooperation. For instance, it provides for the non-reciprocal
trade preferences previously enjoyed by the ACP states to be replaced with
regional free trade agreements. The aim of this essay is, firstly, to examine the
EU's motives behind introducing the innovations of the Cotonou Agreement, and
secondly, to analyse how the EU managed to force them through in the EU-ACP
negotiations despite resistance from the ACP states. Thirdly, the potential
implications for the ACP states of the new liberal trade regime that the Cotonou
Agreement entails will be examined. The EU's motives behind introducing the
innovations of the Cotonou Agreement will be analysed from the perspectives of
neo-liberal institutionalism and weak cognitivism, while the theoretical
perspective used to analyse the EU-ACP negotiations on the Agreement will be
power-based regime theory. Finally, by examining the potential impact of the new
trade regime on the development of the ACP states, the essay will test liberal
theories of economic development. (Less)
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- author
- Bladh, Ingela
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Cotonou Agreement, EU-ACP cooperation, rationalism, cognitivism, neo-liberalism, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- English
- id
- 1324412
- date added to LUP
- 2007-11-12 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2007-11-12 00:00:00
@misc{1324412,
abstract = {{On 23 June 2000, the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states
signed the Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid agreement which represents a new
approach to EU-ACP cooperation. For instance, it provides for the non-reciprocal
trade preferences previously enjoyed by the ACP states to be replaced with
regional free trade agreements. The aim of this essay is, firstly, to examine the
EU's motives behind introducing the innovations of the Cotonou Agreement, and
secondly, to analyse how the EU managed to force them through in the EU-ACP
negotiations despite resistance from the ACP states. Thirdly, the potential
implications for the ACP states of the new liberal trade regime that the Cotonou
Agreement entails will be examined. The EU's motives behind introducing the
innovations of the Cotonou Agreement will be analysed from the perspectives of
neo-liberal institutionalism and weak cognitivism, while the theoretical
perspective used to analyse the EU-ACP negotiations on the Agreement will be
power-based regime theory. Finally, by examining the potential impact of the new
trade regime on the development of the ACP states, the essay will test liberal
theories of economic development.}},
author = {{Bladh, Ingela}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{A New Approach to EU-ACP Cooperation - The Shaping, Negotiation and Implications of the Cotonou Agreement}},
year = {{2007}},
}