The European Union and Global Development: A Rights-based Development Policy? (Routledge Studies on the European Union and Global Order) - Softcover

Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032059737 ISBN 13: 9781032059730

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

This book systematically analyses the EU’s commitment to a human rights-based approach to development through the lens of global justice theory.

It identifies limits to the EU’s approach and discusses how standardised policies, particularly in the case of human rights sanctions, may be perceived as neo-colonially intrusive and can come at the cost of recognizing the experiences and interests of vulnerable groups and allowing for partner countries’ democratic ownership of their own development trajectory. Engaging with primary sources including official documents, reports, and 45 semi-structured interviews with EU and member state officials, the book also presents a novel explanation for why the EU, at times, steps out of its commitment to rights-based development and chooses differentiated foreign policy responses to similar situations.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign policy, EU development policy human rights, and international relations as well as policy practitioners working in the fields of development, human rights and democracy promotion.

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About the Author

Johanne Døhlie Saltnes is post-doctoral researcher at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032059737
• ISBN 13: 9781032059730
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210