Armenia and Europe

Foreign Aid and Environmental Politics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Pål Wilter Skedsmo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9781788311748 (ISBN)

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Armenia receives one of the highest levels of international aid per capita in the Western world, and among the highest of the post-Soviet states. This ethnographic study, based on new primary research, looks at aid in the South Caucasus, and its role in Armenia’s relationship with Europe. In particular, Skedsmo argues that the Aarhus Convention, which entitles citizens of Europe to access information and participation in decision-making in environmental matters has allowed Armenian citizens to adapt and control the direction of their country’s political future in various ways – whether through protest activism or legal challenges. A new examination of aid and development, and the structures these create, Europe and Armenia will be an essential case study for scholars of development, for regional specialists in the post-soviet area (especially South Caucasus), social anthropologists, students of post socialism and development (postcolonialism). In addition, the book will be of interest for practitioners and European policy-makers, transnational organizations and others involved in development policies and projects in the region.

Pål Wilter Skedsmo is Senior Research Fellow and Research Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway.

Preface
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
1 Development and ‘transition’ in Armenia: Contexts and concepts
2 Transparent Environment: ‘Helping’ countries into a ‘pan-European’ legal space
3 Save Teghut!
4 LOG-framing: Donor legitimation and unattainable project goals
5 ‘Never mind, it’s not a good idea’
Conclusion
Index
Appendix 1: Excerpt from the Aarhus Convention text
Appendix 2: Statement from Teghut Conference
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-13	9781788311748 / 9781788311748
Zustand	Neuware