Towards European Integration: Do the European Union and Its Members Abide by the Same Principles?

In the last few decades the European Union (EU) and its members have emphasized the importance of human rights and the need to improve human rights conditions in Third World countries. In this research project, I attempted to find out whether the European Union and its members practice what they preach by giving precedence to countries that respect human rights through their Official Development Assistance (ODA) program. Furthermore, I tried to analyze whether European integration occurs at the foreign policy level through aid allocation. Based on the literatures on political conditionality and on the relationship between human rights and foreign aid allocation, I expected that all EU members promote principles of good governance by rewarding countries that protect the human rights of their citizens. I conducted a cross-sectional time-series selection model over all recipients of ODA for each of the twelve members for which I have data, the European Commission, and the aggregate EU disbursements from 1979 to 1998.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2004

Author dc:creator

• Etienne, Anne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Poe, Steven
• Mason, T. David
• Greig, Michael

• Economic assistance, European -- Developing countries.
• Human rights -- Developing countries.
• European Union.
• European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Developing countries.
• Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations -- European Union countries.
• human rights
• foreign aid
• European Union
• political conditionality

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Etienne, Anne
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 56621326
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