Maurizio Carbone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Carbone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbone |
| SIGNATURE | CARBONE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4986-0776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement
This article, drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and embracing the decentring agenda in European Union (EU) external relations, discusses the substance of human rights promotion in the negotiations of the Samoa Agreement. It documents how the EU has concentrated on civil and political rights, whereas Africa has advanced an innovative approach to economic, social and cultural rights underpinned by the right to developme…
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: The Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations
This article argues that to better understand the evolution of EU-Africa relations it is necessary to decentre the EU’s external action and concurrently recentre Africa’s international agency, while also interrogating the rise of new powers in Africa. Decentring Europe and recentring Africa means challenging the assumptions that Africa needs Europe more than Europe needs Africa and that African states should align with the EU in international set…
Double two-level games and international negotiations: Making sense of migration governance in EU-Africa relations
This article conceptualises international negotiations between two groups of states as the result of double two-level games, whereby the two negotiating teams negotiate with their counterpart at the international level while simultaneously engaging with their constituents at their respective domestic level, trying to reconcile pressures from both arenas. Furthermore, it points to the importance of contextual and normative explanations and problem…
Making a difference in multilateral negotiations: The European Union and the global agenda on aid effectiveness
This article argues that the European Union (EU) can make a difference in multilateral negotiations, yet its external impact is likely to be more significant not when it has a high internal capability, and the systemic context is favourable, but rather when a policy entrepreneur (be it the European Commission alone or in concert with some member states) acts purposefully to push the EU’s common position forward. To reach this conclusion, it trace…
The European Union and the evolving requirements of international development: Aid, policies, partnerships
The European Union’s external relations have long embraced development policy, which has affected the advancement of cooperation with countries and regions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, Asia, and Latin America. While foreign aid has been one of its main tools, the notion of development has been changing, requiring the EU to adjust or, otherwise, risk further endangering its image, reputation, and effectiveness as an international acto…
There is life beyond the European Union: Revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, established in June 1975 by the Georgetown Agreement, was generally seen as an emanation of the European Union (EU). This article presents a non-EU-centric perspective by discussing various initiatives aimed at fostering intra-ACP cooperation and promoting common ACP positions in international settings. Furthermore, it analyses various threats to the survival of the ACP Group, some linked to its all…
Common and intersecting interests: EU-Caribbean relations and the post-Cotonou EU-ACP partnership
The expiration of the Cotonou Agreement in February 2020 paved the way to a comprehensive review of the longstanding partnership between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. Following an intense and contentious preparatory process, the EU’s proposal for an unprecedented cooperation framework, consisting of a general part and three regional pillars, was reluctantly accepted by the ACP Group. Officia…
The Calm after the Storm: Plurilateral Challenges to the Post‐2020 EU–ACP Partnership
No abstract available
Caught between the ACP and the AU: Africa’s relations with the European Union in a post-Cotonou Agreement context
This article traces the formation of Africa’s position in view of the negotiations with the European Union for a successor to the Cotonou Agreement set to expire in February 2020, providing some explanations for the failure of the ACP Group and the African Union to achieve a consolidated position. By examining official discourses and the role of different actors, it demonstrates that the ACP Group and the AU manifested alternative views on the EU…
Democratic sultanate, atomised pluralism, political engineering: Sartori and the paradoxes of the Italian political system
No abstract available
Europeanisation of Development Policy
Matteo Renzi and primary elections: A love–hate relationship
Searching for dry land on the horizon: Italian party and electoral politics in the summer of 2015
The period since we were finalising the last issue of the journal has been marked by the occurrence of events, and the emergence of processes, of considerable significance for party and electoral p
International tragedies and domestic farces
The Italian political system, past, present and future
At the time of writing, the Renzi government had been in office for nearly a year. When, in February 2014, it had presented itself to the chambers to ask for the confirmatory votes of confidence, t
The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development: Reforms, Results, Resistance
Italy's development policy and the domestic politics of Europeanisation: Why Europe matters so little
In spite of Italy's extraordinary ratio of foreign aid channelled through the European Union and its support for a common European approach to international development promoted by the European Commission, combined with significant Europeanisation pressures since the early 2000s, the ‘impact of Europe’ on Italy's development policy has been rather limited. Examining the issues of quantity and quality of aid between 2002 and 2014, and the process …
The Europeanisation of development policy
Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe on national development policies has largely been overlooked. By exploring member state interactions with and through the EU level across a number of different issues, this study looks to herald a new research agenda. The picture emerging from the empirical evidence is that of modest degree…
Beyond the Telemachus complex: Courses, discourses and the 2014 Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
No abstract available
Embellishment and detail
Leading from outside Parliament
Unlocking Italy
Beyond Economic Partnership Agreements: The European Union and the trade–development nexus
Without disregarding them, this volume seeks to go beyond the controversial and extensively researched Economic Partnership Agreements to offer new perspectives on the evolution of the trade–development nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context. In particular, it focuses on the reform of the Generalised System of Preferences, the negotiation of various Preferential Trade Agreements, the application of trade…
Much ado about nothing? The European Union and the global politics of untying aid
This article has two main purposes. The first is that of providing a longitudinal analysis of the global politics of untying aid, by looking at a number of debates that have occurred within the Development Assistance Committee and in the context of a number of high-level forums on aid effectiveness. The second is that of proposing some explanations for the lack of significant progress in these contexts. The focus is on the European Union (EU), wh…
The confidence vote of 2 October 2013: The (final) end of the Berlusconi era
Mission Impossible: The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development
The principle of policy coherence has been the object of a contentious debate in the European Union’s external relations, though discussions have been limited mainly to its foreign policy and its ability to speak with one voice in the international arena. Despite being institutionalized in the Treaty of Maastricht, policy coherence for development (PCD), which implies taking into account the needs and interest of developing countries in non‐aid p…
The Europeanisation of development policy
Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe on national development policies has largely been overlooked. By exploring member state interactions with and through the EU level across a number of different issues, this study looks to herald a new research agenda. The picture emerging from the empirical evidence is that of modest degree…
The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development: Reforms, Results, Resistance
The domestic foundations of Italy's foreign and development policies
The end of the Cold War and the so-called First Republic produced new challenges and opportunities for Italy's foreign and development policies, as well as a new set of domestic factors shaping those policies. Despite various examples of bipartisan consensus, there are fundamental differences in the way the centre-right and centre-left coalitions now pursue foreign policy goals (i.e. neo-Atlanticism and pragmatic bilateralism for the centre-right…
International development and the European Union's external policies: Changing contexts, problematic nexuses, contested partnerships
This study explores and explains how the European Union's (EU's) overall approach to international development has evolved since the beginning of the twenty-first century. At the international level, the rise of a group of emerging economies has not only provided developing countries with greater choices, but has also further enhanced their agency, thus questioning the EU's leadership and even relevance in international development. At the Europe…
Beyond Economic Partnership Agreements: The European Union and the trade–development nexus
Without disregarding them, this volume seeks to go beyond the controversial and extensively researched Economic Partnership Agreements to offer new perspectives on the evolution of the trade–development nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the international context. In particular, it focuses on the reform of the Generalised System of Preferences, the negotiation of various Preferential Trade Agreements, the application of trade…
Between EU actorness and aid effectiveness: The logics of EU aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
This article argues that, by acting autonomously and cohesively, the European Union (EU) was able to shape the global agenda on foreign aid throughout the 2000s, particularly on the issue of donor complementarity and division of labour. By contrast, its ability to promote aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa was significantly constrained by national aid bureaucracies and by the complex aid architecture. More generally, to fully understand whet…
The Calm after the Storm: Plurilateral Challenges to the Post‐2020 EU–ACP Partnership
No abstract available
Italy's development policy and the domestic politics of Europeanisation: Why Europe matters so little
In spite of Italy's extraordinary ratio of foreign aid channelled through the European Union and its support for a common European approach to international development promoted by the European Commission, combined with significant Europeanisation pressures since the early 2000s, the ‘impact of Europe’ on Italy's development policy has been rather limited. Examining the issues of quantity and quality of aid between 2002 and 2014, and the process …
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: The Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations
This article argues that to better understand the evolution of EU-Africa relations it is necessary to decentre the EU’s external action and concurrently recentre Africa’s international agency, while also interrogating the rise of new powers in Africa. Decentring Europe and recentring Africa means challenging the assumptions that Africa needs Europe more than Europe needs Africa and that African states should align with the EU in international set…
Sustainable Tourism in Developing Countries: Poverty Alleviation, Participatory Planning, and Ethical Issues
Much ado about nothing? The European Union and the global politics of untying aid
This article has two main purposes. The first is that of providing a longitudinal analysis of the global politics of untying aid, by looking at a number of debates that have occurred within the Development Assistance Committee and in the context of a number of high-level forums on aid effectiveness. The second is that of proposing some explanations for the lack of significant progress in these contexts. The focus is on the European Union (EU), wh…
Towards the End of a Long Transition? Bipolarity and Instability in Italy's Changing Political System
This article analyses the significance of the 2008 general election for the prospects of an early conclusion to Italy's transition from a First to a Second Republic. The election saw not only the return of Berlusconi to power, but also a radical simplification of Italian politics, with a considerable reduction in the number of parliamentary groups and the emergence of much more straightforward and clear-cut governing and opposition roles. The lik…
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement
This article, drawing on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and embracing the decentring agenda in European Union (EU) external relations, discusses the substance of human rights promotion in the negotiations of the Samoa Agreement. It documents how the EU has concentrated on civil and political rights, whereas Africa has advanced an innovative approach to economic, social and cultural rights underpinned by the right to developme…
Double two-level games and international negotiations: Making sense of migration governance in EU-Africa relations
This article conceptualises international negotiations between two groups of states as the result of double two-level games, whereby the two negotiating teams negotiate with their counterpart at the international level while simultaneously engaging with their constituents at their respective domestic level, trying to reconcile pressures from both arenas. Furthermore, it points to the importance of contextual and normative explanations and problem…
There is life beyond the European Union: Revisiting the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
The African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group, established in June 1975 by the Georgetown Agreement, was generally seen as an emanation of the European Union (EU). This article presents a non-EU-centric perspective by discussing various initiatives aimed at fostering intra-ACP cooperation and promoting common ACP positions in international settings. Furthermore, it analyses various threats to the survival of the ACP Group, some linked to its all…
The European Union, Good Governance and Aid Co-ordination
This article reviews the EU's distinctive approach to good governance, based on policy dialogue and incentives, in light of the significant transformations that have occurred in EU development policy since the early 2000s. The argument made here is that only when the EU decided to act as a single actor was it possible to agree on a harmonised approach to good governance. By doing so, the EU sought to promote aid effectiveness and at the same time…
Between ambition and ambivalence: Italy and the European Union's Mediterranean policy
This article reviews Italy's role in the various phases of the European Union's policy towards the Mediterranean: the ad hoc policy of the 1950s and 1960s, the Global Mediterranean Policy developed in the 1970s, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership agreed in Barcelona in 1995, the European Neighbourhood Policy signed in 2003, the proposal launched by French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006 for a Mediterranean Union. The overall argument is that th…
Beyond the Telemachus complex: Courses, discourses and the 2014 Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
No abstract available
The European Union and China's rise in Africa: Competing visions, external coherence and trilateral cooperation
This study analyses the impact of China's rise in Africa on the European Union (EU). Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that the EU's renewed interest in Africa is not the result of China's new assertiveness in the continent, but is a consequence of the EU's ambitions to become an influential global actor and the consequent search for a more coherent external policy. Africa, thus, represented an ideal venue in which different EU actors co…
From Paris to Dublin: Domestic Politics and the Treaty of Lisbon
This article discusses the domestic politics of treaty reform in the European Union, from the failed referendum on the Constitutional Treaty held in France in May 2005 to the failed referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon held in Ireland in June 2008. A meticulous examination of the national level, it is argued here, helps us to better understand the European level and why some Member States manage to influence outcomes more than it would be expected.…
Italy and the south of the world: Still a laggard in international development
This article analyses Italy's approach to international development, focusing in particular on why Italy gives (so little) foreign aid to developing countries. The first part explains trends since the 1960s. Following a slow start, Italy significantly boosted its volume of foreign aid in the 1980s, with the aim to enhance its prestige in the international arena and to support the penetration of its business interests in the developing world. The …
Beyond the three circles: Italy and the rest of the world
Holding Europe back: Italy and EU development policy
The relationship between the European Union (EU) and the developing world has undergone a number of significant changes since the end of the cold war. Following a lengthy discussion on the future o
Weak civil society in a hard state: Lessons from Africa
This paper investigates the role of civil society in Botswana within the broader context of the state–civil society dynamic in Africa. It is argued that, like other countries in Africa, civil society in Botswana is rather weak. Conversely, unlike other countries in Africa, a weak civil society is accompanied by a hard state. Thanks to wise leadership, Botswana has experienced remarkable economic growth rates and significant improvements in human …
Weak civil society in a hard state: Lessons from Africa
This paper investigates the role of civil society in Botswana within the broader context of the state–civil society dynamic in Africa. It is argued that, like other countries in Africa, civil society in Botswana is rather weak. Conversely, unlike other countries in Africa, a weak civil society is accompanied by a hard state. Thanks to wise leadership, Botswana has experienced remarkable economic growth rates and significant improvements in human …
Sustainable Tourism in Developing Countries: Poverty Alleviation, Participatory Planning, and Ethical Issues
The European Union and International Development: The Politics of Foreign Aid
The European Union is a leading actor in international development, providing more than half of the world’s foreign aid, but also a unique case, combining the characteristics of a bilateral and a multilateral donor. The increases in volume of aid, the ambitious agenda on aid effectiveness, and the adoption of the European Consensus on Development indicate a change of direction. Using development policy as a starting point, this book provides a sy…
Holding Europe back: Italy and EU development policy
The relationship between the European Union (EU) and the developing world has undergone a number of significant changes since the end of the cold war. Following a lengthy discussion on the future o
Introduction: Italy in the international arena: between the EU and the US
Introduction: Italy in the international arena: between the EU and the US?." Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 9(2), pp. 97–98
The domestic foundations of Italy's foreign and development policies
The end of the Cold War and the so-called First Republic produced new challenges and opportunities for Italy's foreign and development policies, as well as a new set of domestic factors shaping those policies. Despite various examples of bipartisan consensus, there are fundamental differences in the way the centre-right and centre-left coalitions now pursue foreign policy goals (i.e. neo-Atlanticism and pragmatic bilateralism for the centre-right…
Supporting or Resisting Global Public Goods? The Policy Dimension of a Contested Concept
Following the publication of a seminal book by the UN Development Programme in 1999, the concept of global public goods has become a key theme in the debate on international development. Supporters argue that an adequate provision of GPGs can help manage the negative consequences of globalization; moreover, considering that these goods provide benefits to both developed and developing countries, resources should be additional to foreign aid. Resi…
Italy and the south of the world: Still a laggard in international development
This article analyses Italy's approach to international development, focusing in particular on why Italy gives (so little) foreign aid to developing countries. The first part explains trends since the 1960s. Following a slow start, Italy significantly boosted its volume of foreign aid in the 1980s, with the aim to enhance its prestige in the international arena and to support the penetration of its business interests in the developing world. The …
Beyond the three circles: Italy and the rest of the world
Introduction: Italy's foreign policy and the Mediterranean
Following the end of the Cold War, Italy took on greater responsibilities in dealing with the increased challenges to international security, especially in its neighbourhood. The aim of this special issue of the journal Modern Italy is to understand to what extent Italy has been successful in developing a third circle in its foreign policy beyond the two traditional lodestars, Atlanticism and Europeanism; or whether Italy's competence in the Medi…
Between ambition and ambivalence: Italy and the European Union's Mediterranean policy
This article reviews Italy's role in the various phases of the European Union's policy towards the Mediterranean: the ad hoc policy of the 1950s and 1960s, the Global Mediterranean Policy developed in the 1970s, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership agreed in Barcelona in 1995, the European Neighbourhood Policy signed in 2003, the proposal launched by French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006 for a Mediterranean Union. The overall argument is that th…
Mission Impossible: The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development
The principle of policy coherence has been the object of a contentious debate in the European Union’s external relations, though discussions have been limited mainly to its foreign policy and its ability to speak with one voice in the international arena. Despite being institutionalized in the Treaty of Maastricht, policy coherence for development (PCD), which implies taking into account the needs and interest of developing countries in non‐aid p…
EU Development Policy in a Changing World: Challenges for the 21st Century – Edited by A. Mold
Towards the End of a Long Transition? Bipolarity and Instability in Italy's Changing Political System
This article analyses the significance of the 2008 general election for the prospects of an early conclusion to Italy's transition from a First to a Second Republic. The election saw not only the return of Berlusconi to power, but also a radical simplification of Italian politics, with a considerable reduction in the number of parliamentary groups and the emergence of much more straightforward and clear-cut governing and opposition roles. The lik…
From Paris to Dublin: Domestic Politics and the Treaty of Lisbon
This article discusses the domestic politics of treaty reform in the European Union, from the failed referendum on the Constitutional Treaty held in France in May 2005 to the failed referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon held in Ireland in June 2008. A meticulous examination of the national level, it is argued here, helps us to better understand the European level and why some Member States manage to influence outcomes more than it would be expected.…
The Politics of Italy's Foreign Policy in the Mediterranean: Profile
One of the announcements made by Silvio Berlusconi after his victory in the April 2008 elections was that his first visit as prime minister would be to Jerusalem in May 2008, to take part in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel. The trip never happened, but that statement was a first sign of discontinuity with the foreign policy conducted by the defeated centre-left government. In particular, the Prodi government was ch…
The European Union, Good Governance and Aid Co-ordination
This article reviews the EU's distinctive approach to good governance, based on policy dialogue and incentives, in light of the significant transformations that have occurred in EU development policy since the early 2000s. The argument made here is that only when the EU decided to act as a single actor was it possible to agree on a harmonised approach to good governance. By doing so, the EU sought to promote aid effectiveness and at the same time…
The European Union and China's rise in Africa: Competing visions, external coherence and trilateral cooperation
This study analyses the impact of China's rise in Africa on the European Union (EU). Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that the EU's renewed interest in Africa is not the result of China's new assertiveness in the continent, but is a consequence of the EU's ambitions to become an influential global actor and the consequent search for a more coherent external policy. Africa, thus, represented an ideal venue in which different EU actors co…
The confidence vote of 2 October 2013: The (final) end of the Berlusconi era
Italy in the aftermath of the 2013 general elections
International development and the European Union's external policies: Changing contexts, problematic nexuses, contested partnerships
This study explores and explains how the European Union's (EU's) overall approach to international development has evolved since the beginning of the twenty-first century. At the international level, the rise of a group of emerging economies has not only provided developing countries with greater choices, but has also further enhanced their agency, thus questioning the EU's leadership and even relevance in international development. At the Europe…
Between EU actorness and aid effectiveness: The logics of EU aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
This article argues that, by acting autonomously and cohesively, the European Union (EU) was able to shape the global agenda on foreign aid throughout the 2000s, particularly on the issue of donor complementarity and division of labour. By contrast, its ability to promote aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa was significantly constrained by national aid bureaucracies and by the complex aid architecture. More generally, to fully understand whet…
Embellishment and detail
Leading from outside Parliament
Unlocking Italy
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