Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Endorsement
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Note
  • Bibliography
  • Part I Theorising Africa-EU relations through history
  • Introduction to Part I
  • Contextualising the theorising on Africa-EU relations
  • African agency in theory or a brave new world for Africa-EU relations?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 1 International Relations theory: Comparative reflections on EU-Africa relations
  • Structural pattern
  • Realism and international anarchy: The case of EU-Africa relations
  • Liberalism and EU-Africa interregional dependence
  • EU-Africa relations in constructivist perspective
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • Bibliography
  • 2 Regionalism and interregionalism in EU-Africa relations
  • From European to regional integration
  • Beyond a Eurocentrist reading of African regionalism
  • Postcolonial regionalism in Africa and the role of interregionalism with Europe
  • EU-Africa relations through the lens of interregionalism
  • Fluid regional delineations
  • Interregionalism and asymmetry
  • Regional cohesion
  • Interregionalism and institutionalisation
  • The interregionalism-regionalism nexus
  • From interregionalism to interregionalisms
  • Note
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Applying postcolonial approaches to studies of Africa-EU relations
  • What are postcolonial approaches?
  • Colonial legacy, historical amnesia and decentring Europe
  • The meaning of partnership: Paternalism and the ontological Other
  • Market liberalisation and a changing world order in a postcolonial global economy
  • Politicisation and regional actorness: Rearticulating subjectivity
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Part II Evolving governance in EU-Africa relations
  • 4 From the Treaty of Rome to Cotonou: Continuity and change in the governance of EU-Africa relations
  • Introduction
  • Rome Treaty arrangements: A unilateral associationism (1957-1963)
  • Yaoundé: A negotiated and contractual associationism (1963-1975)
  • Lomé: The rise and erosion of a unique 'partnership' (1975-2000)
  • Cotonou: A failed attempt to revitalise the EU-ACP 'partnership'? (2000-2020)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 5 Foreign policy and EU-Africa relations: From the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy
  • Introduction
  • Foreign policy in defining an international role
  • EU foreign policy: From normative Europe to principled pragmatism
  • Diverging principles and practice: Impact on EU-Africa relations
  • Finding a common ground? The AU, the EU and multilateralism in international norm-setting
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 6 European External Action Service
  • Introduction
  • Understanding the EEAS in the EU's external relations
  • A unique player in the field: The EEAS in EU-Africa relations
  • Inter-institutional contestation and division of labour
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography