European Union and the Third World

MARTIN HOLLAND is Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration and International Relations and Director, Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• Introduction: Setting the Context Four Decades of African, Caribbean and Pacific Relations Latin America and Asia Decision-making and Reforming Institutional Structures Complementarity and Conditionality: Evaluating Good Governance Regimes, Trade and Trading Relations The 1996-2000 Reform Process The Cotonou Partnership Agreement Further Challenges: Implementing Cotonou and 'Everything But Arms' Conclusion: Development and Integration Bibliography Index

'...an interesting and welcome contribution to the task of promoting a better and deeper understanding of EU policy...' - Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Development in Practice '...a very instructive, well-researched, and stimulating book on a topic that has not received sufficient attention from the academic community. - Gorm Rye Olsen, International Politics 'The European Union and the Third World works best as an analysis of why EU policy desperately needed to be reformed. The author reflects on how the Cotonou agreement of 2000 emerged from three major precipitants: the geographical incoherence of the previous treaties, the changes demanded by the new post-Cold War political and economic environment, and forces internally at work within the EU itself...The European Union and the Third World should be commended for providing rich material which outlines the need for the reform, and it is also the best source I have come across for explaining the background to, and content of, the 2000 Cotonou agreement.' - Alex Thomson, European Foreign Affairs Review 'a well-researched highly informative and detailed study that manages throughout to link the internal dynamics and developments of EU policy making with actual policy operation and implementing.' - Tobias Schumacher, International Politics and Society