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This chapter answers the book’s main questions and summarises its main arguments. Moreover, it contextualises them further in the debate on the EU’s external action, particularly in the Southern Neighbourhood. Negotiation analysis proved useful for showing how and to what extent the interests of both sides eventually featured in the policy outcomes and makes it possible for scholars to blur the ‘donor-recipient’ dichotomy without excluding the European counterpart by default. It showed what factors constrained or enabled both parties’ agency in and perceptions of the relations. Theoretically, the findings validate institutional explanations of international relations, arguing that negotiation rules, practices and procedures shape and inform human interactions, constrain or empower actors and shape their expectations about which options they perceive are possible during the negotiations. Moreover, the chapter suggests that scholars should pay more attention to the full range of negotiations taking place beyond ‘grand bargains’.
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Zardo, F. (2020). Conclusion: Joint Ownership Is What Actors Make of It. In: Joint Ownership in EU-Tunisia Relations. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30799-8_6
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