Johanne Døhlie Saltnes

• Brazys, Samuel; Pillai, Arya & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2019). EU Aid for Trade Mitigating Global Trade Injustices?. GLOBUS Research Papers.  ISSN 2535-2504.  (4) Show summary

  Does European Union (EU) foreign economic policy contribute to global justice or does it further neo-colonial structures of economic dependence? To assess this question, we evaluate if and how the EU’s ‘Aid for Trade’ (AfT) efforts have impacted the political, institutional and economic relationships with six sub-Saharan African countries. After discussing the conceptualisation of global justice as non-domination, we evaluate how the AfT initiative has changed the politics and institutions of trade negotiations between Europe and its partner countries. We then take advantage of sub-national datasets on AfT and foreign direct investment (FDI) to see if EU AfT is effective in attracting FDI, either from its own source countries and/or from non-EU sources. Our findings are suggestive that EU AfT initiatives have mitigated global trade injustices by levelling the political, if not institutional, playing fields and by working to attract FDI from both EU and non-EU sources.

• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2019). Global Justice and Aid Effectiveness: Reforms of the European Union's Development Policy. GLOBUS Research Papers.  ISSN 2535-2504.  3 Show summary

  In this paper, Johanne Døhlie Saltnes recasts the story of the like-minded’s intermediate resistance and subsequent acceptance of the EU’s aid effectiveness reforms from one of competing interests and identities to one of contestation over normative principles. The paper draws on the GLOBUS conception of justice as impartiality to conceptualise central elements of the EU’s development policy, and further on the concepts of justice as mutual recognition and justice as non-domination to understand the like-minded’s resistance to the EU’s approach. The paper further highlights the usefulness of applying a global justice perspective when studying the EU’s development policy, as it facilitates a move beyond so-called ‘idealist motivations’ for aid and creates analytical standards that nuance our understanding of the competing normative claims that donors make in their aid policies.

• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018). Resistance to EU integration? Norm collision in the coordination of development aid. Journal of European Integration.  ISSN 0703-6337.  41(1), s 525- 541 . doi: 10.1080/07036337.2018.1533007 Full text in Research Archive.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018). The European Union’s human rights policy: is the EU’s use of the human rights clause inconsistent?. Global Affairs.  ISSN 2334-0460.  4(2-3), s 277- 289 . doi: 10.1080/23340460.2018.1535251 Show summary

  Recurrent claims of selective and inconsistent implementation of the European Union’s (EU) human rights clause questions the legitimacy basis of the Union’s human rights policy. If the EU’s actions do not match its rhetoric, it runs the risk of being accused of hypocrisy. This article contributes with novel empirical insights regarding the question of whether the EU delivers on its human rights policy. When assessing the EU’s use of the human rights clause scholarly literature has largely followed rationalist theory arguing that the EU’s foreign policy decisions are driven by economic interest or security considerations. I find that existing studies have used a biased selection of cases. A combination of theoretical assumptions and methodological choices appears to be guiding the selection process. Existing hypotheses are not sought falsified, as they are tested only on a set of cases where ‘interest’ of some sort is already known to exist. I find non-implementation of the clause also in countries where the EU has no such specific ‘interests’. Given these additional cases the account of the EU’s policy must be reconsidered.

• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2017). Norm collision in the EU’s external policies. The case of EU sanctions towards Rwanda. Cooperation and Conflict.  ISSN 0010-8367.  52(4), s 553- 570 . doi: 10.1177/0010836717710528 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  The European Union (EU) is the world’s biggest donor of aid to developing countries. The provision of EU aid is conditional on respect for human rights and democratic principles in the recipient countries. This article questions to what extent norms always yield to interests in decisions over whether to sanction breaches of human rights and democracy. Building on a theory that allows the simultaneous consideration of different norms, the article suggests that rather than interests being the determining factor when the EU takes decisions on implementing sanctions, the weighing of various norms and the choice to follow one of them can explain why sanctions have been avoided in certain cases in Rwanda. The article shows that this weighing of different norms plays an important role in foreign policy decisions and can have concrete consequences with regard to sanctions. In so doing, it advances the literature on the EU’s global role by developing a theoretical account of the evaluation process and the ultimate decision to act in accordance with one norm in particular.

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• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2019). Norm collision in the European Union's external policies. EU development policy revisited..
• Grønning, Ragnhild & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018, 11. juni). Critical voice and constructive partner? The role of civil society in EU foreign policy. [Internett].  GLOBUS.
• Grønning, Ragnhild & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018, 27. juni). Do human rights limit state sovereignty?. [Internett].  GLOBUS.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018). Global justice and aid effectiveness: Reforms of the European Union’s development policy.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018). Global justice and the promotion of sexual minority rights: Explaining donors’ foreign policy responses to the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda..
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2018). Why the debate over the European Development Fund is a question of politics, EUROPP Blog.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie & Grønning, Ragnhild (2018, 23. mars). Crisis management without conflict resolution: EUFOR Tchad/RCA. [Internett].  GLOBUS. Show summary

  The EU’s approach to crisis management is characterised by a prioritisation of state consent and neutrality rather than engaging in conflict resolution and giving local stakeholders a voice, argues Ben Tonra.

• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2017). Case Study of Donor Coordination in EU Development Policy.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2017). 'Resistance to EU integration. Accounting for Like-Minded reluctance to donor coordination in EU development policy.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie & Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch (2017). Is the World Trade Organization unjust? Global Justice Blog.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2016). A crucial year for EU development policy. Global Justice Blog.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2016). Donor coordination in EU development policy. An attempt to enhance external legitimacy?.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2016). EU Development Policy.
• Brøgger, Tine Elisabeth Johnsen & Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2015). Federica Mogherini’s first seven months in office: a balancing act between supranational and intergovernmental decision-making. EUROPP.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2015, 29. januar). Dagsnytt 18, intervju om EUs sanksjoner mot Russland. [Radio].  NRK.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie & Brøgger, Tine Elisabeth Johnsen (2014). Federica Mogherini has outlined an ambitious plan for European foreign and security policy, but the extent to which it is attainable remains to be seen. EUROPP.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2013). The EU’s Human Rights Policy. Unpacking the literature on the EU’s implementation of aid conditionality. ARENA, Working Paper. 2.
• Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie (2011). Book Review. The European Union and Democracy Promotion. A Critical Global Assessment. Internasjonal Politikk - Skandinavisk tidsskrift for internasjonale studier.  ISSN 0020-577X.  69(2), s 333- 337

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