Interregional Development Cooperation : A Focus on the EU and Latin America

• Since the end of the Cold War, regional cooperation and strengthened interregional relations have become a key foreign policy objective on the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy agenda and a preferential platform in its general development policy. When it comes to Latin America, despite being the leading donor of development aid to the region, Latin America has always taken a rather marginal position in the EU’s interregional development cooperation. Yet, the interregional development cooperation that currently exists between the two regions is of a rather complex nature since Latin American states do not represent one single regional organisation. Instead, the EU’s interregional cooperation takes place at both regional and sub-regional levels, and besides channelling development assistance to those two levels, EU financial aid is also distributed bilaterally to individual states of the region. The study at hand aims at exploring the nature of EU interregional development cooperation with Latin America by looking at its constituent levels. Is there a regional dimension in the EU’s development assistance to Latin American states and can the Union’s support for regional cooperation be considered a significant thread in its development activities in Latin America? Among the three levels involved in EU-Latin America development cooperation – the bilateral, sub-regional and regional one – is any of them more dominant than the others?

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified (hsv//eng)

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Development cooperation

interregionalism

interregional relations

EU

Latin America

Peace and development research

Freds- och utvecklingsforskning

Research on Europe

Forskning om Europa

Political Science

Statsvetenskap

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