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Moving beyond a donor-recipient relationship? Assessing the principle of partnership in the joint Africa-EU strategy

Karen Del Biondo (UGent)
(2020) JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES. 38(2). p.310-329
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The Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES, 2007), aimed to break with the traditional donor-recipient relationship between the EU and Africa and to develop a true partnership. This paper investigates whether the JAES has succeeded in this aim. Particularly, it focuses on the principle of equality, defined as a situation where the more powerful partner does not impose its will on the less powerful partner. Empirically, it investigates the thematic partnerships on peace and security and democratic governance and human rights. Based on a review of primary and secondary literature and 32 expert interviews, the paper argues that the EU has overall treated its African counterparts as equal partners in these thematic partnerships, namely by respecting ownership and jointly deciding on what to discuss in the partnership. Nonetheless, divergences based on differences in interests and values have in some cases led to the perception from African partners that the EU did not treat them as equals.
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NORMATIVE POWER, SECURITY, PEACE, COOPERATION, AGREEMENTS, STATES, UNION, LOME, END, Africa, European Union, peace and security, democratisation, partnership

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Del Biondo, Karen. “Moving beyond a Donor-Recipient Relationship? Assessing the Principle of Partnership in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy.” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES, vol. 38, no. 2, 2020, pp. 310–29, doi:10.1080/02589001.2018.1541503.
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Del Biondo, K. (2020). Moving beyond a donor-recipient relationship? Assessing the principle of partnership in the joint Africa-EU strategy. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES, 38(2), 310–329. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2018.1541503
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Del Biondo, Karen. 2020. “Moving beyond a Donor-Recipient Relationship? Assessing the Principle of Partnership in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy.” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES 38 (2): 310–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2018.1541503.
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Del Biondo, Karen. 2020. “Moving beyond a Donor-Recipient Relationship? Assessing the Principle of Partnership in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy.” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES 38 (2): 310–329. doi:10.1080/02589001.2018.1541503.
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Del Biondo K. Moving beyond a donor-recipient relationship? Assessing the principle of partnership in the joint Africa-EU strategy. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES. 2020;38(2):310–29.
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K. Del Biondo, “Moving beyond a donor-recipient relationship? Assessing the principle of partnership in the joint Africa-EU strategy,” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN STUDIES, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 310–329, 2020.
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