Spain's role in the EU's development cooperation agreement with Cuba / Joaquin Roy. Theorizing the EU's international promotion of LGBTI rights policies in the global south / Markus Thiel -- The Biodiversity for Life (B4L) Flagship Initiative: the EU, Africa, and biodiversity conservation / Annette LaRocco -- European involvement in China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: geopolitical pragmatism or normative engagement? / Lukas K. Danner -- Sino-Indian relations and EU development policies in post-conflict Nepal / Bibek Chand -- New directions in EU-Africa development initiatives / Olufemi Babarinde -- The EU, CARIFORUM, and CELAC: a new development alliance? / Percy C. Hintzen -- The Peru-EU free trade agreement: obstacle or opportunity for Peru's sustainable development? / Yovita Ivanova -- Spain's role in the EU's development cooperation agreement with Cuba / Joaquin Roy.
Summary:
"The European Union (EU), while collectively constituting the world's largest development provider, has come under internal and external pressures over the past decade. This book argues that the EU's development policies are situated between the bloc's normative ideals and the global geopolitical realities in which it is embedded. In order to investigate these tensions, it asks how far the 'normative power' Europe concept exists in EU development policies, and how far it is recognizable in the EU's focus on human rights, the rule of law, and sustainability. In light of the tension in EU development policies between those ideals and the necessity to project neoliberal and geopolitical interests, how do receiving countries perceive the EU's development efforts? This volume, complete with contributions from academics from a wide range of disciplines based all around the globe, provides answers to these essential questions"-- Back cover.
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