The Invention of a European Development Aid Bureaucracy: Recycling Empire

by V. Dimier

Overview

A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of 'recycled empire.' Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a result of pressure from the OECD and World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230300002
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/22/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Veronique Dimier is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She was previously a researcher at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and Senior Lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. "Grandeurs et Servitudes Européennes en Afrique" 3. Brussels or the last French Colony: French Colonial Administrators' Leadership in Designing DG8 4. "Du Bon Usage de la Tournée": DG8's Quest for Legitimacy 5. Flag Dictatorship within the European Commission? The Construction of DG8's Autonomy 6. Fachoda Revisited: the Effects of the first EEC Enlargement on DG8 7. EEC Development Policy: a Sedimentation of Empire? 8. In the Name of Efficiency 9. From Indirect to Direct Rule: Towards Normative Power Europe? 10. 'Adieu les Artistes, Here are the Managers' 11. EEC Bureaucracy in Action 12. Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

It succeeds in combining analytical rigour and extensive use of citations with a writing style that is both highly readable and engaging, giving the reader a unique peek into the personalities, convictions and conflicts of the key figures that gave DG8 its shape. … As a result, this book is essential reading for a wide and varied audience, in both the European studies and international development communities.” (Floor Keuleers, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (2), 2016)

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