The Persisting Logics of Coloniality in Global Europe: Explaining the European Union’s Internal Legitimacy and Geopolitical Motivations in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2023) STVM23 20231Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This dissertation addresses the uncertain future of the European Union’s development cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) against the backdrop of officializing the successor of the Cotonou Agreement with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The ongoing scholarly debate has been attempting to make sense of the EU’s turn to Africa in a novel phase of cooperation, which has thus far involved the launching of a new and comprehensive financing instrument, nicknamed Global Europe. However, the mainstream debate has proven highly Eurocentric in its realist conceptions, which focus on how the EU’s internal legitimacy and geopolitical motivations constitute potential sources of innovation in development thinking. The purpose of... (More)
- This dissertation addresses the uncertain future of the European Union’s development cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) against the backdrop of officializing the successor of the Cotonou Agreement with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The ongoing scholarly debate has been attempting to make sense of the EU’s turn to Africa in a novel phase of cooperation, which has thus far involved the launching of a new and comprehensive financing instrument, nicknamed Global Europe. However, the mainstream debate has proven highly Eurocentric in its realist conceptions, which focus on how the EU’s internal legitimacy and geopolitical motivations constitute potential sources of innovation in development thinking. The purpose of this dissertation is to explain the ideational continuity that lies at the basis of surface-level changes using coloniality as a central concept. Drawing from 15 semi-structured, systematizing expert interviews, I utilize experts’ interpretive knowledge to provide a decentered worldview of cooperation in which the EU’s partners in SSA become the reference point. My finding is that persisting logics of coloniality are crucial to the ideational structure of the EU as a development actor. Through this finding, I ground both the development and post-/decolonial bodies of literature into the present-day policy context. (Less)
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- author
- Strambeanu, Liviana-Michelle LU
- supervisor
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- Ian Manners LU
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- EU development policy, Global Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, realism, coloniality
- language
- English
- additional info
- I would like to thank the 15 experts whom I have interviewed within the scope of this dissertation for their openness and interest in my research.
- id
- 9115311
- date added to LUP
- 2023-08-27 16:29:17
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