Van Criekinge Tine

 

Biographical Note

  

Tine Van Criekinge defended her PhD thesis, entitled "Power Asymmetry between the European Union and Africa? A case study of the EU's relations with Ghana and Senegal", at the London School of Economics in August 2009.

In her current role as a Jean Monnet Fellow she continues her research on EU-Africa relations, focusing especially on the migration dialogue between the EU and Africa and by extending the geographical focus of her research to other African regions.

Her main research interests consider the EU as an international actor, EU foreign policy, EU-Africa relations, development, trade and migration in Africa.

 

Power Asymmetry between the EU and Africa? An Assessment of African Leverage

The project examines the EU's relations in the aid, trade and migration fields with a set of African countries. It questions why some countries, despite an evident power asymmetry between the EU and Africa, are able to successfully influence and reach their preferences vis-a-vis the EU.

It focuses especially on these countries' perceptions of the EU as a foreign policy actor and how this affects their strategies, choices, and preferences in their relations with the EU