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This chapter provides a critical overview of the increased emphasis on civil society within European Union (EU) development policy. It makes two major arguments. Firstly, it suggests that the EU's conceptualisation of civil society and its relationship with democracy and development is based on a number of liberal 'Western' assumptions about the good society. Civil society has an overtly political component that needs to be acknowledged. Secondly, civil society programmes need to be understood within the broader economic aims of EU development policy. The chapter begins with a critical exploration of the theoretical relationship between civil society and development. It then discusses how the EU has sought to mainstream civil society into its development policy. This general section then leads into a focus on the main regions of the developing world with which the EU has relations. Here the experiences of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states, Asia and Latin America, and the Mediterranean region are contrasted.
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