Designed to replace Martin Holland's The European Union and the Third World, this new text provides systematic coverage of the European Union's policies in relation to the developing world in the 21st century and includes substantial coverage of governance issues and the relationship between development initiatives and European integration.

Introduction: Setting the Context Four Decades of African, Caribbean and Pacific Relations Latin America Asia Complementarity and Conditionality: Evaluating Good Governance Regimes, Trade Policy and Trading Relations Institutions, Reform and Aid 2020 The Cotonou Partnership Agreement Implementing EPAs and 'Everything but Arms' The EU and the Global Governance Development Agenda Development, Foreign Policy and EU Public Opinion Conclusion: Development and Integration.

Reviews of The European Union and the Third World: '... an interesting and welcome contribution to the task of promoting a better and deeper understanding of EU policy...' - Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Development in Practice '... a very instructive, well-researched, and stimulating book on a topic that has not received sufficient attention from the academic community. - Gorm Rye Olsen, International Politics 'The European Union and the Third World works best as an analysis of why EU policy desperately needed to be reformed. The author reflects on how the Cotonou agreement of 2000 emerged from three major precipitants: the geographical incoherence of the previous treaties, the changes demanded by the new post-Cold War political and economic environment, and forces internally at work within the EU itself ...The European Union and the Third World should be commended for providing rich material which outlines the need for the reform, and it is also the best source I have come across for explaining the background to, and content of, the 2000 Cotonou agreement.' - Alex Thomson, European Foreign Affairs Review 'A well-researched, highly informative and detailed study that manages throughout to link the internal dynamics and developments of EU policy making with actual policy operation and implementing.' - Tobias Schumacher, International Politics and Society

Reviews of The European Union and the Third World: '... an interesting and welcome contribution to the task of promoting a better and deeper understanding of EU policy...' - Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Development in Practice '... a very instructive, well-researched, and stimulating book on a topic that has not received sufficient attention from the academic community. - Gorm Rye Olsen, International Politics 'The European Union and the Third World works best as an analysis of why EU policy desperately needed to be reformed. The author reflects on how the Cotonou agreement of 2000 emerged from three major precipitants: the geographical incoherence of the previous treaties, the changes demanded by the new post-Cold War political and economic environment, and forces internally at work within the EU itself ...The European Union and the Third World should be commended for providing rich material which outlines the need for the reform, and it is also the best source I have come across for explaining the background to, and content of, the 2000 Cotonou agreement.' - Alex Thomson, European Foreign Affairs Review 'A well-researched, highly informative and detailed study that manages throughout to link the internal dynamics and developments of EU policy making with actual policy operation and implementing.' - Tobias Schumacher, International Politics and Society

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