http://www.sudoc.fr/174718845 eng FR Mémoire de master Constraints of conditional aid : analysis of malfunctions and partner perceptions of the EU's external aid conditionality : the consultation procedures of the Cotonou Agreement Sciences Po Strasbourg 2013-06-30 Accord ACP-UE de Cotonou Thèses et écrits académiques 327.4 Broghammer David Aide économique européenne Thèses et écrits académiques Pays de l'Union européenne Relations extérieures Thèses et écrits académiques application/pdf Accès libre https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/public/memoires/2013/IEP/2013_BROGHAMMER_David.pdf Vahlas Alexis Politiques européennes Since the early 1990s the European Union uses systematically so called political conditionality in external agreements with its partners. While the number of such agreements multiplies dramatically, their dimensions in terms of implementation and real usage represents inconsistencies that can be identified also as part the EU s strategic acting. Such vagueness creates problems especially for small countries, where the Cotonou Agreement is the most comprehensive example to analyze. This work is interested in the perception of Cotonou s consultation procedure features, identifies and discusses various problems to argue finally that, despite being the most elaborated conditionality-tailored agreement, the Cotonou Agreement s clause presents several weaknesses. In regard to a more general view on applied or non-applied conditionality by the EU in the first part of this thesis we argument that incentive-based or less punitive approaches towards conditionality could be the more functional option for the European Union in the long run. Memoire Unistra