TY - JOUR
T1 - Agency and governance in European Union international development
AU - Serban, Ileana Daniela
N1 - Funding Information:
The author is grateful to the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for the postdoctoral fellowship at Waseda University (Tokyo) where the first steps of the research were carried out.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Global South Ltd.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The European Union’s actorness in international development has been mainly approached from the perspective of EU foreign policy studies, by accounting for the type of power that the EU institutions have aimed to project around the world. Turning this theoretical puzzle upside down and starting from an analysis of indirect governance in EU aid policies, the current article unveils additional instances of EU agency, such as the EU as a policy facilitator and as a policy interpreter. The theoretical argument builds on indirect governance theories, a novel theoretical tool that has not been previously used for analysing EU international development actorness. Empirical examples include regional programmes in Latin America and show how delegation and orchestration as mechanisms of indirect governance have been used by the European Commission in order to continue playing a relevant role in a complex and changing international development context.
AB - The European Union’s actorness in international development has been mainly approached from the perspective of EU foreign policy studies, by accounting for the type of power that the EU institutions have aimed to project around the world. Turning this theoretical puzzle upside down and starting from an analysis of indirect governance in EU aid policies, the current article unveils additional instances of EU agency, such as the EU as a policy facilitator and as a policy interpreter. The theoretical argument builds on indirect governance theories, a novel theoretical tool that has not been previously used for analysing EU international development actorness. Empirical examples include regional programmes in Latin America and show how delegation and orchestration as mechanisms of indirect governance have been used by the European Commission in order to continue playing a relevant role in a complex and changing international development context.
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U2 - 10.1080/01436597.2021.1979955
DO - 10.1080/01436597.2021.1979955
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-2241
VL - 42
SP - 2902
EP - 2919
JO - Third World Quarterly
JF - Third World Quarterly
IS - 12
ER -
