Our purpose is to take stock of some current trends in the rethinking of development theory, but above all to transcend the development discourse and move towards a comprehensive social science theory, here called ‘global social theory’, meaning a unified historical and critical social...

This article provides an analytical framework for understanding the EU’s foreign policy relations (FPRs), namely enlargement (towards new candidates), stabilization (towards the neighbourhood), bilateralism (towards great powers) and interregionalism (towards more far away regions of Africa,...