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Postcolonial Analysis of EU-ACP Development Cooperation

Explore the postcolonial aspects of EU-ACP cooperation, focusing on the Cotonou Agreement, decision-making processes, and cultural implications in development policies. Analyze the cultural lens, structural adjustments, good governance, and human rights issues. Highlight the challenges of cultural relativism and universalism in promoting development.

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Postcolonial Analysis of EU-ACP Development Cooperation

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  1. A PostcolonialistAnalysis of the Development Cooperation between the EU and the ACP Countries Bohao Wang M.A. in Political Science National Taiwan University

  2. Outline of the presentation • I. Postcolonialism • II. Cotonou Agreement • III. Institutions and Process of Decision-making • IV. A Postcolonialist Analysis • V. Conclusion

  3. I. Postcolonialism • A. Said (A) representation (B) dichotomy • B. Spivak (A) the subaltern (B) reflexivity  Is the EU aware of its own cultural lens when promoting values through its development policies?

  4. II. CotonouAgreement • A. Changes (A) Changes in trade relations (B) Inclusion of the civil society in decision-making process • B. Continuities (A) Basic needs (B) Structural adjustments (C) Good governance (D) Human rights

  5. III. Institutions and Process of Decision-making • A. Council of Ministers • B. European Parliament (A) monitoring (B) Co-decisioning • C. European Commission • D. European External Action Services, EEAS

  6. IV. A PostcolonialistAnalysis • A. Development policies becoming more foreign policies oriented after the Treaty of Lisbon. • B. Cultural implication of the guiding principles (A) basic needs 1. fictional, hierarchical 2. justificaion of the intervention of the expert 3. ignorance of inequality

  7. IV. A Postcolonialist Analysis (B) structural adjustments 1. cultural weights and discursive authority of economics 2. neo-colonialism and bio-politics (C) good governance 1. western donors as judges, deciding what’s good and bad. 2. corruption/ anti-corruption

  8. IV. A Postcolonialist Analysis • (D) human rights 1. universalism vs. cultural relativism 2. both are problematic -cultural relativism: dichotomous, essentialist, -universalism: promotion of universal rights? essentialist 3. universality as a goal not a priori fact

  9. V. Conclusion • Ignorance of the cultural lens • Pretense to neutrality and objectivity VS. • Reflexivity

  10. Thank you for your attention!

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