EU Donor Policies in Situations of Fragility: Promoting ‘Resilience’&quest

Jan Pospisil and Sophie Besancenot
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Jan Pospisil: iip – Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna, Austria
Sophie Besancenot: European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy

The European Journal of Development Research, 2014, vol. 26, issue 5, 614-628

Abstract: In recent policy papers on developmental statebuilding, for example in the European Report on Development in 2009, the concept of ‘resilience’ has been introduced as an alternative to ‘fragility’ and ‘fragile states’. This concept even offers the possibility of forging a ‘common European approach’. Although a considerable number of donor agencies (and, in particular, the European Commission since 2012) have adopted the concept and are applying it in some of their guidelines and strategies, the state of implementation in concrete interventions is unclear at present. Taking the development cooperation of the European Union and its member states in South Sudan as an example, this article assesses the current status of resilience in statebuilding efforts to be ambivalent: although there is little explicit reference to the concept in current country strategies and concrete programming, some components of resilience inform interventions.

Date: 2014
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