Restructuring North-South Relations: ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries)-EU Development Co-Operation in a Liberal International Order

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Title:	Restructuring North-South Relations: ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries)-EU Development Co-Operation in a Liberal International Order
Author:	Brown, William
Year:	2000
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy
Volume:	27
Issue:	85
Period:	September
Pages:	367-383
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	European Union Lomé Convention Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations international relations
External links:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240008704473 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4025B34282EE08D9CBD8
Abstract:	This article examines the character of relations between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in the wake of the new EU-ACP Partnership Agreement, signed in June 2000, and which replaces the longstanding Lomé Convention. The origins of EU-ACP cooperation are placed within the specific context of decolonization and the rise of a new form of inter-State relations between the North and the South. However, the nature of North-South cooperation has been transformed in the period since the 1970s when Lomé was first signed. Consequently the new agreement (and the prior changes to the Lomé Convention) need to be understood in the context of wider restructuring and liberalization of North-South relations. This has led to far-reaching changes to both the aid and trade elements of European Union-Africa relations. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.