The invention of a European development aid bureaucracy : recycling empire / Véronique Dimier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimier, Véronique, author.

Contributor:

Palgrave (Firm).

Series:

Palgrave studies in European Union politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Economic Community--Africa.

European Economic Community.

Economic assistance, European--Africa--History.

Economic assistance, European.

Colonies.

Administration.

History.

International economic relations.

European Union countries--Foreign economic relations--Africa.

European Union countries.

European Commission. Directorate-General Development and Cooperation--EuropeAid.

European Commission.

France--Colonies--Africa--Administration--History.

France.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 240 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Through in-depth analysis of European development policy over the past fifty years, this book outlines the significant influence that former French colonial officials had in designing and implementing development aid programmes in Africa and the way their influence has continued to impact upon EEC development policy in Africa. The study shows that the Directorate General 8 of the European Commission (DG8), which was the institution responsible for this policy, was well adapted to dealing with emergent African administrations, and was modelled on the neo-patrimonial system of DG8's African clients. Within this system, authority and legitimacy were based on mutual trust and obligations, personal and affective ties, political compromise, permanent exception to the rule, the core of what was termed 'Indirect Rule' during colonial times. It also examines how this administrative system evolved following successive EEC enlargements and the extent to which this evolution necessitated an incremental process towards bureaucratization, for example, the rationalization of procedures and the depersonalization of practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'Grandeurs et Servitudes Européennes en Afrique' (European Greatness and Servitude in Africa) 10

2 Brussels or the Last French Colony: French Colonial Officials' Leadership in Designing DG8 22

3 'Du Bon Usage de la Tournée': DG8's Quest for Legitimacy 43

4 Flag Dictatorship within the European Commission? The Construction of DG8's Autonomy 59

5 Fashoda Revisited: The Effects of the First EEC Enlargement on DG8 80

6 EEC Development Policy: A Sedimentation of Empires? 99

7 Roads and Rural Path Dependencies 116

8 In the Name of Efficiency 140

9 From Indirect to Direct Rule: Towards 'Normative Power of Europe'? 160

10 'Adieu les Artistes. Here Come the Managers' 175

11 EEC Bureaucracy in Action 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1137318279

9781137318275

Publisher Number:

99960084552

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.