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Book SynopsisEU development cooperation policy has ceased to be unique and perhaps has become more symbolic than substantive. This book analyses the external and internal influencing factors which have contributed to the drastic changes to this policy.
Table of Contents1. EU development cooperation, from model to symbol? – Karin Arts and Anna K. Dickson
2. From uniqueness to uniformity? An assessment of EU development aid policies – William Brown
3. The unimportance of trade preferences – Anna K. Dickson
4. The ACP in the European Union's network of regional relationships: Still unique or just one in the crowd? – Karen E. Smith
5. Changing european concerns: Security and complex political emergencies instead of development – Gorm Rye Olsen
6. Changing interests in EU development cooperation: The impact of EU membership and advancing integration – Karin Arts
7. ‘Sense and sensibility’: The role of France and French interests in European development policy since 1957 – Anne-Sophie Claeys
8. The commission and development policy: Bureaucratic politics in EU aid from the Lome Leap forward to the difficulties of adapting to the 21st century – Adrian Hewitt and Kaye Whiteman
9. Conclusions: The potential and limits of EU development cooperation policy – Karin Arts and Anna K. Dickson
