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Book SynopsisThe European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations.
Table of ContentsI. Introduction
1. EU-Africa relations in the twenty-first century: evolution and explanations – Maurizio Carbone
II. Actors and contexts
2. The European Union as an actor in Africa: internal coherence and external legitimacy – Fredrik Söderbaum
3. The EU’s Africa policy between the US and China: interests, altruism, and cooperation – Gorm Rye Olsen
4. Locating the EU’s strategic behaviour in Sub-Saharan Africa: an emerging strategic culture? – Richard G. Whitman and Toni Haastrup
5. Africa’s place in international relations: domestic politics, global linkages – Ian Taylor
6. African regionalism: external influences and continental shaping forces – Mary Farrell
III. Policies and partnerships
7. Foreign aid, coordination, and ownership in EU-Africa relations – Maurizio Carbone
8. EU human rights and democracy promotion in Africa: normative power or realist interests? – Gordon Crawford
9. Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa: losing friends and failing to influence – Christopher Stevens
10. Unfulfilled expectations? The EU’s agricultural and fisheries policies and Africa – Alan Matthews
11. Out of Africa: the energy-development nexus – Amelia Hadfield
12. Climate change and the EU-Africa Strategy: coherence, leadership, and the ‘greening’ of development – Simon Lightfoot
13. The EU-Africa migration partnership: the limits of the EU’s external dimension of migration in Africa – Tine Van Criekinge
14. Work in progress: the social dimension of EU-Africa relations – Jan Orbie
IV. Conclusion
15. European policies, African impact and international order: (re)evaluating the EU-Africa relationship – Michael Smith
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