The project will contribute to the ongoing research on the EU’s relations with the so-called ‘Global South’, with a particular focus on EU development policy. The project will engage in critical research on EU development policy, building on an already established research agenda on change and continuity in EU development policy. Drawing on the literatures on paradigm change and post-development, this agenda proposed four key questions for future research: How can we map the EU’s current paradigm?; How can we map changes and continuities in this regard?; How can we explain changes and continuities?; What role do policy experiments play in this regard? The project aims to contribute to this agenda, amongst others by looking at the nexus-thinking that is so central in todays’ development thinking, as reflected in the philosophy of the SDGs. Depending on the selected PhD candidate, this includes a focus on migration, climate change or fisheries.