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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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The European Union as an actor in Africa: internal coherence and external legitimacy
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Ingår i: Maurizio Carbone (ed) The European Union in Africa. Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance?. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9780719083464 ; , s. 25-42
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overarching question addressed in this paper is to what extent and under what circumstances the EU should be seen as an “actor” in its relations with Africa, with a particular focus on trade, aid and peace policies. The paper shows that whereas the EU often speaks with one voice, for instance in trade, it is more ambiguous and pluralistic in other policy areas, such as aid and security/peace, where decision-making is either “shared”, or is based on national and intergovernmental policies. Sometimes there is even little in the way of articulated EU policy, and the EU member states pursue their own national policies outside of the EU framework. What explains this pattern? Much like other global actors, including the most powerful EU member states, the EU’s actions in Africa are characterized by the pursuit of power and the manifestation of various regional and national identities and interests. The nation-state logic is still active. Going beyond the EU’s official rhetoric (which invariably contain an often misleading egalitarian flavor), the EU is strongly concerned with establishing itself as a global actor and with gaining political power (for various purposes). It is nevertheless clear that the EU deals with the external world — including Africa — in a different manner from that of an ordinary great power driven by geopolitical interests. This is because the civilian or ‘normative’ power employed in the EU’s own region-building is also being projected in its external relations as the preferred world order model.
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- Froitzheim, Meike, 1983, et al.
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The Limits of the EU as a Peace and Security Actor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 2011
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Ingår i: Africa Spectrum. - 1868-6869. ; 46:3, s. 45-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European Union (EU) is increasingly aspiring to be a global peace and security actor. Using the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a test case to analyse such ambitions, this article reveals that the EU’s attempts to build peace and security are severely compromised by its bureaucratic and organizational complexity as well as by its ineffective policies. In fact, the EU’s state-centred approach in the DRC has resulted in the EU’s inability to deal with 1) the realities of governance in the DRC and 2) the strong trans-border dimensions of the conflict. As a result, the EU continues to lack a coherent strategy for the DRC, despite a large budget. The analysis concludes that the EU is more concerned with establishing a symbolic presence and a form of representation than with achieving specific goals.
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- Hettne, Björn, 1939, et al.
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Reflections on the EU and the Global South
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Ingår i: Söderbaum and Stålgren (eds) The European Union and the Global South. - Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner. ; , s. 249-268
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Africa Meets Europe: Towards Comparative Regionalism
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Ingår i: New Regionalism and the European Union. Dialogues, Comparisons and New Research Directions, edited by Alex Warleigh-Lack, Nick Robinson and Ben Rosamond. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 59-79
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Formal and Informal Regionalism
- 2011
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Ingår i: Research Companion to Regionalisms, edited by Timothy M. Shaw, Andrew Grant and Scarliett Cornelissen. - Aldershot : Ashgate. ; , s. 51-68
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Sverige, EU och “brandkårsutryckningar” i fredens tjänst
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Ingår i: Linda Berg and Rutger Lindahl (eds), Förhoppningar och farhågor — Sveriges första 20 år i EU. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. ; , s. 357-373
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Utöver att skydda Sveriges territorium och frihet så hjälper Sverige till att försöka ”skapa fred” i världens olika oroshärdar genom att delta i olika typer internationella fredsfrämjande insatser, vanligtvis under ledning av FN eller EU. Detta kapitel problematiserar och diskuterar grundläggande frågor såsom i vilken fas av konfliktcykeln intervenerar Sverige och EU i sitt engagemang för att bygga fred och lindra nöd? Varför intervenerar man egentligen? Med vilka medel? Vilket tidsperspektiv anammas i de internationella insatserna? På vilket sätt tar man hänsyn till nationella och lokala kontexten i de fredsfrämjande insatserna, och hur förankras insatserna nationellt och lokalt?
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968, et al.
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The EU and the Global South
- 2010
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Ingår i: Söderbaum and Stålgren (eds) The European Union and the Global South. - Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner. ; , s. 1-14
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