Siradag, A. (2012). Causes,
Rationales and Dynamics: Exploring the Strategic Security Partnership between
the European Union and Africa. Leiden: Leiden University (defended successfully at Leiden University on 19 December 2012)
My supervisor for my PhD project is Prof. Dr. Madeleine O. Hosli from the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands and my co-supervisor is Prof. Dr. Gerrit Olivier from Pretoria University, South Africa.
http://www.nieuws.leidenuniv.nl/nieuws-2012/de-eu-en-afrika-een-helpende-hand-of-eigenbelang.html
Abstract
This study examines a strategic partnership
in the areas of peace and security between the EU and Africa. The EU has been
strengthening its institutional ties with African organisations since 2000,
with security relations with Africa a priority on the EU’s agenda following the
9/11 attacks on the United States of America. The study shows the driving
forces behind the establishment of the partnership, arguing that the EU’s
economic interests have played a significant role in its development. In
addition, new global threats and challenges, such as immigration issues,
climate change, international terrorism, conflicts, and the emerging global
actors in Africa have affected the EU’s current foreign and security policy
towards Africa. Norms and ideas also contribute to the emergence of the notion
of strategic security partnership, but to a lesser extent. Drawing on
literature, the method of process-tracing, and primary, secondary and tertiary
sources, this dissertation opens up previously unexplored aspects of security
relations between the two continents. Against the historical background of
colonialism and recent moves to continental confederation and globalism, it
seeks to determine why the EU has consolidated its institutional relations with
African organisations.
