The European Union in Africa : the linkage between security, governance and development from an institutional perspective
Abstract
The international community currently favours an approach to development that
stresses a triangular linkage between security, good governance and economic
development. This approach clearly informs the European Union’s agenda in Africa,
which has progressively integrated governance and security elements. This paper
will show that this agenda is at least as much determined by the bureaucratic and
national affiliations of the concerned EU actors as it is by African realities and international
trends. African security indeed triggers a competition between the
different European institutions, eager to be the driving force for a policy that can
offer some additional resources and autonomy. The consistency and the credibility
of the EU security policy in Africa will therefore depend on the responses provided
to these institutional rivalries.
Keywords: European Union, Africa, security, institutions, member-states.
Citation
Bagoyoko, N. & M.V. Gibert (2007) The European Union in Africa : the linkage between security, governance and development from an institutional perspective. Working paper series, 284. Brighton: IDS.Is part of series
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