Description
This paper examines the nature of EU development policy post Brexit. Brexit will occur at a key time for the future of EU development policy with the renegotiation of the post 2020 ACP-EU partnership and the post 2020 European Development Fund at key moments. After exploring potential scenarios for EU aid post Brexit, the paper will explore how the loss of one of the largest contributors to the EU’s international development budget and one of the world’s largest bilateral donors will impact on EU development policy going forward. It will examine how Brexit might impact on the links between development aid and foreign and security policy, how the geographical focus of EU aid might change and how the policy drivers of the policy might shift internally. Overall, it will contextualize Brexit within the shifts in conceptualising, and implementing EU development policy, from the rise in human security/R2P strands, to the security-development nexus in the Cotonou, in the EEAS' recent global strategy and the general "resilience" turn.
