Beyond Aid: How Trade Interests Trumps EU-Asean Development Cooperation

Luís Mah

No 169, CEsA Working Papers from CEsA - Centre for African and Development Studies

Abstract: The EU Agenda for Change adopted in 2011 is the basis of the current EU´s development policy and aims at responding to the changes undergoing in the international development arena. One of the key principles and policy priorities of this agenda is differentiation which manifests the EU intention to increasingly provide aid only to Low Income countries (LICs). This paper will critically analyse to what extent this shift to differentiation is shaping the relations between the EU and ASEAN. It will argue that EU relations with ASEAN have always been differentiated from other developing countries as they have been subordinated to trade interests rather than development goals.

Date: 2018-10
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