1st Edition

Broadening the Debate on EU�Africa Relations Towards Reciprocal Approaches

Edited By Frank Mattheis, John Kotsopoulos Copyright 2020
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

Broadening the Debate on EU–Africa Relations is designed to expand the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourse. The focus on chapters highlighting an African perspective offers an opportunity to redress an imbalance in scholarship, and also... Read more

1. A contextualisation of EU–Africa relations: Trends and drivers from a reciprocal perspective

John Kotsopoulos and Frank Mattheis

2. AU–EU relations: Challenges in forging and implementing a joint agenda

Luckystar Miyandazi, Philomena Apiko, Tasnim Abderrahim and Faten Aggad-Clerx

3. Caught between the ACP and the AU: Africa’s relations with the European Union in a post-Cotonou Agreement context

Maurizio Carbone

4. Sanctions and summits: Sanctioned African leaders and EU–Africa summits

Jo-Ansie van Wyk

5. Exploring ‘brain circulation’ as a concept to mitigate brain drain in Africa and improve EU–Africa cooperation in the field of science and technology

Amr Radwan and Mahmoud Sakr

6. Characterising partnership for research and innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the case of the Africa–EU ProIntensAfrica Initiative

John Ouma-Mugabe, Petronella Chaminuka and Ana M P Melo

7. The European Union and security sector reform: South Sudan and the challenge of ownership

Arnold H Kammel

8. Interregionalism and police cooperation against cross-border crime in East Africa: Challenges and prospects

Jacob Lisakafu

Biography

Frank Mattheis is a researcher at the Institut d’études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in global studies and specialises in comparative regionalism and interregionalism.

John Kotsopoulos is an associate fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in International Relations (University of Kent, UK) with focus on asymmetrical negotiations between the European Union and Africa.