Understanding EU Development Policy: history, global context and self-interest?

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Throughout this article I use EU to represent the European Union and the organisation, pre-Maastricht Treaty, officially referred to as the European Community.

European Commission, The European Community's Development Policy: Statement by the Council and the Commission, Brussels: European Commission, 2000.

European Parliament, Council, Commission, ‘The European Consensus on Development', Official Journal of the European Union, 24 February 2006, C46, pp 1–19.

A Mold, ‘Between a rock and a hard place—whither EU development policy?’, in Mold (ed), EU Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007, p 241.

S Dearden, ‘Introduction: European Union development aid policy—the challenge of implementation’, Journal of International Development, 20(2), 2008, p 191.

P Holden, In Search of Structural Power: EU Aid Policy as a Global Political Instrument, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, p 13.

M van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union and the developing world: what future?’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, p 59.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, p 33.

European Commission, Green Paper on Relations between the European Union and the ACP Countries on the Eve of the 21st Century: Challenges and Options for a New Partnership, COM (1996) 570, 1996, p iv.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, p 42.

C Freres, ‘Challenges of forging a partnership between the European Union and Latin America’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, p 157.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, p 60.

A Mold & S Page, ‘The evolution of EU development policy—enlargement and a changing world’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, pp 17–18.

M Holland, ‘The EU and the global development agenda’, in M Carbone (ed), Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy, London: Routledge, 2009, p 26.

G Faber & J Orbie, ‘EPAs between the EU and Africa: beyond free trade?’, in Faber & Orbie (eds), Beyond Market Access for Economic Development: EU–Africa Relations in Transition, London: Routledge, 2009, p 7.

Mold & Page, ‘The evolution of EU development policy’, p 12.

A Mold, ‘To reciprocate or not to reciprocate? Is that the question? A CGE simulation of the Euro-Mediterranean agreements’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, p 133.

O Elgström, ‘From Cotonou to EPA light: a troubled negotiating process’, in Faber & Orbie, Beyond Market Access for Economic Development, p 33.

European Parliament, Council, Commission, ‘The European Consensus on Development', p 7.

R Youngs, ‘Fusing security and development: just another Euro-platitude?’, in Carbone, Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy, p 107.

GR Olsen, ‘The missing link: EPAs, security and development interventions in Africa’, in Faber & Orbie, Beyond Market Access for Economic Development, p 343.

R Pace, ‘Clash of civilisations or intercultural dialogue? Challenges for EU Mediterranean policies’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, p 89.

A Flint, Trade, Poverty and the Environment: The EU, Cotonou and the African–Caribbean–Pacific Bloc, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p 18.

S Hurt, ‘Co-operation and coercion? The Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and EPA states and the end of the Lomé Convention’, Third World Quarterly, 24(1), 2003, p 174.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power, p 148.

C Freres, ‘Challenges of forging a partnership between the EU and Latin America’, p 159.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power, p 156.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, p 51.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power, p 33.

Mold & Page, ‘The evolution of EU development policy’, p 19.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, p 60.

A Flint, Trade, Poverty and the Environment, p 82.

Ibid, p 106.

A Matthews, ‘The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy and developing countries: the struggle for coherence’, in Carbone, Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy, p 75.

S Lavenex & R Kunz, ‘The migration–development nexus in EU external relations’, in Carbone, Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy, p 120.

European Commission, Migration and Development: Some Concrete Orientations, Communication to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, COM (2005) 390, 2005.

Lavenex & Kunz, ‘The migration–development nexus in EU external relations’, pp 127–128.

G Crawford, ‘The EU and democracy promotion in Africa: high on rhetoric, low on delivery?’, in Mold, EU Development Policy in a Changing World, pp 183–189.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power, p 142.

van Reisen, ‘The enlarged European Union’, pp 52–56.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power, p 41.

Holden, In Search of Structural Power.

M Carbone ‘Mission impossible: the European Union and policy coherence for development’, in Carbone, Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy, p 18.