The ACP Group and the EU Development Partnership: Beyond the North-South Debate

387 Pages·2017·3.73 MB·English

by  Annita Montoute

THE ACP GROUP
AND THE EU
DEVELOPMENT
PARTNERSHIP
Beyond the
North-South Debate
Edited by
Annita Montoute and Kudrat Virk
The ACP Group and the EU
Development Partnership
Annita Montoute • Kudrat Virk
Editors
The ACP Group and
the EU Development
Partnership
Beyond the North-South Debate
Editors
Annita Montoute Kudrat Virk
Institute of International Relations Centre for Confl ict Resolution
The University of the West Indies Cape Town, South Africa
St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
ISBN 978-3-319-45491-7 ISBN 978-3-319-45492-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45492-4
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Norman Girvan (1941–2014),
Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies and Secretary-
General of the Association of Caribbean States from 2000 to 2004, and of
Kaye Whiteman (1936–2014), senior Information Offi cial at the European
Commission between 1973 and 1982 and Editor of W est Africa from 1982
to 1999, both committed to African, Caribbean, and Pacifi c solidarity, and
both giants in their fi elds.
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C
ONTENTS
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgements xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
Part I Historical Foundations of the ACP-EU Relationship 1
1 Introduction 3
Annita Montoute
2 A History of the ACP-EU Relationship:
The Origins and Spirit of Lomé 33
Kaye Whiteman†
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Part II An Anatomy of the ACP-EU Relationship 53
3 The EU and Africa: The Political Economy of an 
Asymmetrical Partnership 5 5
John Akokpari
4 The EU and the Caribbean: The Necessity of Unity 79
Norman Girvan† and A nnita Montoute
5 The EU and the Pacifi c: A Tale of Unfulfi lled Expectations 111
Kaliopate Tavola
Part III A CP Experiences with the Economic
Partnership Agreements 1 33
6 The Economic Partnership Agreements: An 
African Perspective 1 35
Peter H. Katjavivi
7 South Africa, the EU, and the SADC Group Economic
Partnership Agreement: Through the Negotiating Lens 1 61
Xavier Carim
8 The Caribbean-EU Economic Partnership Agreement:
A Caribbean Perspective 1 81
Anthony Peter Gonzales
Part IV Other Key Issues in the ACP-EU Relationship 211
9 The EU’s Security Role in Africa: “The Emperor
Has No Clothes” 213
Adekeye Adebajo
CONTENTS ix
10 ACP-EU Migration Policy 2 35
Anna Knoll
11 Diasporas and Development in the ACP-EU Relationship 2 63
Keith Nurse and R amona Ruggeri
Part V Looking Ahead 2 89
12 The ACP Ambassadorial Working Group on Future
Perspectives of the ACP Group 2 91
Patrick Gomes
13 The ACP, the EU, and the BRICS: Opportunities
on the Horizon or Just a Mirage? 3 17
Kudrat Virk
14 Conclusion 3 41
Kudrat Virk
Notes on Contributors 3 59
Index 3 65
L F
IST OF IGURES
Fig. 1.1 GDP of the EU and the seven EPA negotiating
regions, 2014 1 7
Fig. 11.1 Destination of European migrants, 2013 268
Fig. 11.2 Origins of migrants to Europe, 2013 2 68
Fig. 11.3 ACP South-North mobility, 2011 2 70
Fig. 11.4 Remittances to selected small states in sub-Saharan
Africa as a share of GDP, 2013 2 77
Fig. 11.5 External fi nancial fl ows to Africa, 2001–2013 2 78
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L T
IST OF ABLES
Table 4.1 A Caribbean divided 80
Table 4.2 E U Caribbean OCTs and ORs 8 1
Table 4.3 T rends in trade between the European Union and
developing countries, 1976–1992 85
Table 4.4 T rends in CARICOM-EU trade, 1991–2004 9 2
Table 4.5 C aribbean states: Population, GDP per capita, and
selected affi liations 100
Table 8.1 C ARIFORUM exports to the EU and the world, and
EU imports from the world, 2007–2009 and 2011–2013 185
Table 8.2 T raditional CARICOM and Dominican Republic exports
to the EU, 2007–2009 and 2011–2013 1 86
Table 8.3 C ARIFORUM and ACP ninth, tenth, and eleventh EDF
allocations, 2000–2020 (€ millions) 1 94
Table 11.1 N umber of ACP migrants in selected EU countries,
2005–2006 271
Table 11.2 E U remittance-sending and top ACP receiving
countries, 2012 274
Table 11.3 E U remittance infl ows to selected ACP Caribbean
countries, 2012 278
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