Normative Policy Coherence for Development and Policy Networks: Enemies or Allies?

In this paper I argue that creating networks between secluded policy communities within the EU strengthens the EU's commitments to norms and consequently enhances normative policy coherence for development (NPCD).
The data set is comprised of semi-structured elite interviews with EU and member state representatives in Brussels, Belgium, and Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
As such, this paper contributes to the understanding of policy implementation in a narrower sense and, more generally, to the unerstanding of the EU's approach to development.