Introduction

Since the inception of the European Communities, Africa has been on the horizon for the development of foreign and diplomatic relations, largely due to European states’ will to maintain relations with former colonies and to exert some form of normative power (Haastrup, 2013). However, both the inst...

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Autori principali: Seabra, Pedro, Carvalho, Clara, Ribeiro, Inês Marques
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 2024
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:Since the inception of the European Communities, Africa has been on the horizon for the development of foreign and diplomatic relations, largely due to European states’ will to maintain relations with former colonies and to exert some form of normative power (Haastrup, 2013). However, both the institutional developments in practice and the study of European-African relations have been marked by an asymmetrical hierarchical relationship imbued with post-colonial characteristics. Reasons for t...