Negotiating Lome III: an example of North-South bargaining

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Title:	Negotiating Lome III: an example of North-South bargaining
Author:	Stevens, Christopher
Year:	1986
Issue:	215
Pages:	23
Language:	English
Series:	Discussion paper (ISSN 0308-5864)
City of publisher:	Brighton
Publisher:	Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	European Union Lomé Convention
Abstract:	The process of negotiating Lome III is much more interesting than the results. This paper sets out the negotiations in a form that will facilitate their inclusion in the analysis of North-South negotiating procedures and tactics. The three main actors involved in the negotiations - the EC Commission, the European member States and the ACP countries - were themselves divided into a number of crosscutting factions. The negotiating issues fell into three categories: those of symbolic importance; those with some operational importance but an exaggerated public profile; and those, often technical points, with high operational importance. The ACP defended their interests reasonably well on the first category of issues; there were mutually acceptable compromises on the second; while on the third, the views of the EC member States held sway.