Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards?

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• dc.contributor.author Vlaskamp, Martijn
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-02-01T10:37:10Z
• dc.date.available 2022-02-01T10:37:10Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract Transparency is an organizing principle of the norm of good governance. The EU has adopted a number of policies to promote this norm as a way to address corruption and cronyism in the natural resource sector of many countries. On the global scale, the EU supports the standards of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative. At home, the EU Accounting and Transparency Directives make it for EU companies mandatory to report payments to domestic and foreign authorities for oil, gas and timber extraction rights. This norm has been contested from different sides. China argues that economic development precedes good governance, instead of the other way around. Natural resource-rich countries see global standards as an intrusion of their sovereignty. The extractive industry in Western countries claims that national policies could disadvantage them by creating an uneven playing field. The chapter argues that these contestations remained predominantly soft and did not affect the legitimacy of the organizing principle too much. None of the contesters openly challenged the principle of transparency, but they rather tried to reduce its importance or to change the standardized procedures that came from it. As the EU did not waiver, these efforts have so far not been very successfully.
• dc.description.sponsorship Martijn C. Vlaskamp thanks the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral program of the Government of Catalonia’s Secretariat for Universities and Research (Ministry of Economy and Knowledge) for funding (Grant number: 2017-BP-152). Research was also supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation program (grant number 660245). Martijn thanks Carla Perucca for valuable research assistance and Alanna Irving for proofreading this text. The usual attribution of possible faults applies.
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• dc.identifier.citation Vlaskamp MC. Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards? In: Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 95-112. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_6
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_6
• dc.identifier.isbn 9783030332372
• dc.identifier.isbn 9783030332402
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52384
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 95-112
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Norm research in international relations
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/660245
• dc.rights © Springer This is a author's accepted manuscript of: Vlaskamp MC. Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards? In: Johansson-Nogués E, Vlaskamp M, Barbé E, editors. European Union contested: foreign policy in a new global context. Cham: Springer; 2020. p. 95-112. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_6. The final version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33238-9_6
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• dc.subject.other Transparència política -- Unió Europea, Països de la
• dc.title Good natural resource governance: how does the EU deal with the contestation of transparency standards?
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