CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Baumgartner, Ákos |
|---|---|
| Title | The Resuscitation of the Dead Relative: Geopolitical Agenda in the von der Leyen Commission's International Development Policy in Africa |
| Summary | This study analyzes how the European Union changed its foreign actorness from a normative to a geopolitical power with the takeover of the von der Leyen Commission and what changes in the global political economy triggered them. I analyze the change from the perspective of the global political economy with a policy focus on international development cooperation in Africa during the Commissions presided by Jean-Claude Juncker (2014-2019) and Ursula von der Leyen (since 2019). In this study, I demonstrate that the previously avoided concept of geopolitics became the guiding principle of international development cooperation policies, discourse, and finance. I argue that the shift started under European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and accelerated with the von der Leyen Commission due to two major changes in the global political economy in the 2010s, namely, migration and the emergence of a multipolar world in which the EU is trying to preserve its competitive advantage. |
| Supervisor | Piroska, Dóra |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/baumgartner_akos.pdf |
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