Interregionalism across the Atlantic Space by Frank Mattheis & Andréas Litsegård

Author:Frank Mattheis & Andréas Litsegård
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

5.3.3 Quasi Interregionalism

There are a number of examples of this specific interregional pattern in EU-sub-Saharan African relations, including among others the EU-South Africa relations in the field of trade. Since 1999, these relations have been regulated by a Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement, which included a free trade area. In 2007, the EU and South Africa entered into a Strategic Partnership, which symbolizes the recognition by the EU of the important role played by South Africa on a regional and international level. Since then, South African and EU’s representatives have held regular summits and ministerial meetings (European External Action Service 2015). Another example of quasi-interregionalism is the security co-operation between France and ECOWAS. Since the end of the 1990s, France has actively supported and collaborated with ECOWAS in terms of conflict prevention and peace-building in West Africa. Some examples are provision of capacity-building support; training peacekeepers; undertaking joint training exercises; seconding military liaison officers; and jointly undertaking peacekeeping operations, such as the civil war in the Ivory Coast from 2002 and onwards (Chafer and Stoddard 2014).

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