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Challenges such as economic and social exclusion, state fragility and environmental degradation – in particular climate change – have become more salient on the global agenda. This is aptly illustrated by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the SDGs, the global development agenda has broadened its initial focus on economic development and humanitarian aid and become a comprehensive framework for global cooperation. The 2030 Agenda and the SDGs have made clear that global development challenges require collective action if they are to be resolved, at domestic level and with regard to foreign policies by all countries.
Meanwhile, a series of crises inside Europe (the Euro, Brexit and migration, to name just three) have weakened European solidarity and the EU’s potential to pursue ambitious international agendas. But the world does not sit still, of course. The growing influence of rising powers – especially China, India and Brazil – in global affairs has arguably reduced the relative importance of European aid as an instrument for supporting development, and as a lever of influence.
The implications of these challenges for European development cooperation are explored in a new special issue of Development Policy Review, available online.
All of the articles in the Special Issue will be available for free download for one month from 23 March.
Contributions to the special issue explore the ways in which the EU approaches collective action challenges in different development cooperation frameworks and policy settings. Themes explored include strategies for overcoming collective action problems, the impacts of these interactions on EU and member state aid policies, coherence between development and other policy fields, relations between European and other development actors, and the reception of the EU’s efforts in developing countries.
This launch event provides an opportunity to discuss these issues with researchers who contributed to the Special Issue and, in a round table debate, with an expert panel of policymakers and scholars.
Special Issue Launch (15:00-17.30h)
Welcome by Christine Hackenesch, EU Project Leader, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn
Introduction:
EU Collective Action amid Global Transformation and Domestic Crisis
by Mark Furness, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn
Acting Collectively: EU Development Cooperation and Global Challenges:
Make Europe happen on the ground? Enabling and constraining factors for EU aid coordination in Africa
by Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow
The rise and demise of European budget support: political economy of collective European Union donor action
by Nadia Molenaers, University of Antwerp
The European Union as a Collective Actor: Aid and Trade in African Public Opinion
by Thilo Bodenstein, Central European University, Budapest
The Normative Distinctiveness of the European Union in International Development: Stepping Out of the Shadow of the World Bank?
by Fabienne Bossuyt / Joren Verschaeve, University of Ghent
Followed by an open discussion.
Round Table Debate (18:00-20:00h)
Welcome by Tanja Baerman, International Affairs, State Chancellery of North-Rhine Westphalia, Düsseldorf
Moderator:
Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London; European Think Tanks Group Chair
Panelists:
Nils Behrndt, Head of Cabinet, European Development Commissioner
Judith Sargentini, Member of the European Parliament
Imme Scholz, Deputy Director, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Jörg Faust, Director, German Institute for Development Evaluation
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
03/23/2017 15:00 - 03/23/2017 20:00
Event venue:
NRW Landesvertretung
Rue Montoyer 47
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
Target group:
Business and commerce, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Politics
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
03/03/2017
Sender/author:
Tanja Vogel
Department:
Stabsstelle Kommunikation
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event56942
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