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The European Union (EU) is often understood as a normative power. However, based on a case study of European policy networks in Vietnam, this article shows that despite the EU's commitment to norms and transformative development, norms are not a priority in the implementation of development policies. Rather, norm promotion is delegated to political and diplomatic representatives, whereas development and trade representatives are responsible for technical work. Consequently, policy networks created around these four sectors tend to operate separately from each other, undermining the spillover of norms from diplomatic and political networks to development and trade networks. As a result, this article shows that the structural-institutional separation of sectoral policy networks is one of the EU's systemic characteristics that restrict normative policy coherence for development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This last decade, regional organizations progressively became unavoidable actors of regional health governance and have been supported by some global health actors to strengthen such a role. Among these actors, the European Union (EU) is the only regional organization that implements health initiatives in cooperation with its regional counterparts. This article focuses on such "health interregionalism" toward Southeast Asia and Africa and in the field of communicable diseases, with the main objective of assessing its nature and identifying its main functions. It concludes that although appreciated and needed, the EU's health interregionalism should better reflect the EU's experience in regional health governance in order to represent a unique instrument of development aid and an added value for regional organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Si la Federation des Caraibes fut un echec, elle ne marqua toutefois pas l'arret de la cooperation et de l'integration regionales. Les pays caribeens membres du Commonwealth sont au cœur d'un complexe reseau d'echanges et de partenariats, qui depasse leur propre groupe et s'etend aux pays non anglophones de la zone et aux dependances europeennes. L'auteur analyse l'evolution des processus d'integration, a travers le Caricom, l'Organisation des Etats de la Caraibe orientale et l'Association des Etats de la Caraibe, et evalue la place des pays membres du Commonwealth dans une region aux heritages multiples. La comparaison avec l'Union europeenne et l'analyse de l'approche britannique de l'integration soulignent les specificites des facteurs geopolitiques et identitaires, des methodes et des avancees des pays du Commonwealth caribeen, dans le contexte de la mondialisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]