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A comprehensive analysis of how European development policy was shaped, this book explores the role of former colonial officials in shaping the policy agenda and explores this example of ´recycled empire.´ Dimier argues that this post-colonial agenda only changed as a result of pressure from the OECD and World Bank in the 1980s and 1990s.

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1. Introduction 2. "Grandeurs et Servitudes Européennes en Afrique" 3. Brussels or the last French Colony: French Colonial Administrators´ Leadership in Designing DG8 4. "Du Bon Usage de la Tournée": DG8´s Quest for Legitimacy 5. Flag Dictatorship within the European Commission? The Construction of DG8´s Autonomy 6. Fachoda Revisited: the Effects of the first EEC Enlargement on DG8 7. EEC Development Policy: a Sedimentation of Empire? 8. In the Name of Efficiency 9. From Indirect to Direct Rule: Towards Normative Power Europe? 10. ´Adieu les Artistes, Here are the Managers´ 11. EEC Bureaucracy in Action 12. Conclusion

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"It succeeds in combining analytical rigour and extensive use of citations with a writing style that is both highly readable and engaging, giving the reader a unique peek into the personalities, convictions and conflicts of the key figures that gave DG8 its shape. ... As a result, this book is essential reading for a wide and varied audience, in both the European studies and international development communities." (Floor Keuleers, Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (2), 2016)

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Veronique Dimier is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She was previously a researcher at St Antony´s College, University of Oxford, and Senior Lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht.

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