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The European Union as an International Climate Leader - A qualitative study of the EU’s Climate Leadership in the case of South Africa

Månsson, Emelie LU (2022) SIMZ31 20221
Graduate School
Abstract
Leadership is essential in order to overcome the collective and transnational issue of climate change. Leadership can furthermore enable the contribution to the combatting of climate change, from emerging economies, such as South Africa. Based on the assumption that the EU is a climate leader, this thesis aims to understand the EU’s climate leadership regarding its relationship with South Africa since the year of 2007, when the two actors deepened their cooperation through the EU-South Africa strategic partnership. Hence, more specifically to assess how the EU has led South African climate action. The research question has been assessed through a content analysis of empirical material constituting of primary text documents, secondary... (More)
Leadership is essential in order to overcome the collective and transnational issue of climate change. Leadership can furthermore enable the contribution to the combatting of climate change, from emerging economies, such as South Africa. Based on the assumption that the EU is a climate leader, this thesis aims to understand the EU’s climate leadership regarding its relationship with South Africa since the year of 2007, when the two actors deepened their cooperation through the EU-South Africa strategic partnership. Hence, more specifically to assess how the EU has led South African climate action. The research question has been assessed through a content analysis of empirical material constituting of primary text documents, secondary research sources and material derived from semi-structured interviews. The content analysis was furthermore guided by an analytical scheme of key determinants for three modes of the concept of leadership, structural, directional, and entrepreneurial. The study concludes that ever since the cooperation between the EU and South Africa was deepened in 2007, the EU has led South African climate action in a structural, directional, and entrepreneurial manner. (Less)
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Månsson, Emelie LU
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SIMZ31 20221
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H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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English
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9098982
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  abstract     = {{Leadership is essential in order to overcome the collective and transnational issue of climate change. Leadership can furthermore enable the contribution to the combatting of climate change, from emerging economies, such as South Africa. Based on the assumption that the EU is a climate leader, this thesis aims to understand the EU’s climate leadership regarding its relationship with South Africa since the year of 2007, when the two actors deepened their cooperation through the EU-South Africa strategic partnership. Hence, more specifically to assess how the EU has led South African climate action. The research question has been assessed through a content analysis of empirical material constituting of primary text documents, secondary research sources and material derived from semi-structured interviews. The content analysis was furthermore guided by an analytical scheme of key determinants for three modes of the concept of leadership, structural, directional, and entrepreneurial. The study concludes that ever since the cooperation between the EU and South Africa was deepened in 2007, the EU has led South African climate action in a structural, directional, and entrepreneurial manner.}},
  author       = {{Månsson, Emelie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The European Union as an International Climate Leader - A qualitative study of the EU’s Climate Leadership in the case of South Africa}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}