Africa, the EU and the Samoa Agreement

This edited volume provides a timely and critical analysis of AfricaEU Relations in the new Samoa Agreement phase of the longstanding Eurafrican relationship. Drawing on a range of critical perspectives and contributions it moves beyond Eurocentric visions of policy cooperation on development to highlight three core themes that frame the analysis within this volume: the new scramble for Africa, Europes ontological security and the securitisation of development and African agency. In doing so, it assesses EU actors engagement with African institutions in relation to key areas of policy collaboration, including trade, development, health, migration and security. In this context, it examines whether the partnership offers African states and regional institutions a genuine pathway to development or whether historical power asymmetries remain entrenched and perhaps even exacerbated through the new AfricaEU Agreement. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners involved in Development Studies, EU studies, AfricaEU Relations, African politics and International Relations and more broadly to International Political Economy and Comparative Regionalism.