The EU's global response to Covid-19: the challenge of promoting ownership

Keijzer, Niels / David Black
External Publications (2020)

published on www.globus.uio.no, 26.05.2020

Although the EU’s readiness to respond to an unprecedented global crisis is laudable, our research findings confirm that after more than six decades of international development cooperation the ‘how’ of cooperation remains equally if not more important than the ‘what’. An effective international cooperation response to Covid-19 will in the first instance require urgent ‘damage control’. Yet its effectiveness ultimately rests upon critical inquiry into the ownership and sustainability of the response, necessitating a longer-term focus that justifies the policy domain’s existence as a dedicated area of public policy rooted in the requirements and priorities of southern partners.

This blog post is a part of a series of commentaries on the Covid-19 pandemic and the implications for the EU's global role.

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Keijzer, Niels

Social Science