EUROPEAN NEO-COLONIALISM IN AFRICA

Authors : Ebru OĞURLU

Pages : 1-21

Doi:10.25272/j.2149-8539.2018.4.2.01

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Publication Date : 2018-08-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Europe has a peculiar relationship with Sub-Saharan Africa where the Europeans could  historically extol and justify their colonial project most loudly and skilfully. This colonial history  of the individual European states has had profound implications on Europe’s contemporary  relations with Africa. Since the emergence of the European Union as a supra-national entity, the  relations with those states have regularly been negotiated referring to its claims of being a major  development actor in Africa. Development policy is a hybrid policy of the EU conducted both  bilaterally through the European Commission and multilaterally through the individual efforts of  the member states. This article focuses on the bilateral conduct of the development policy by the  EU as a collectivity and argues that in the long run the EU has transformed from a development  actor into a neo-colonial power in Africa.
Keywords : European Union, Development Policy, Neo Colonialism, Yaoundé Convention, Lomé Convention, Cotonou Agreement