To Be or Not to Be a Normative Power: The EU’s Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Russia
Daskalova, Ana (2013). To Be or Not to Be a Normative Power: The EU’s Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Russia. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers. United Nations University and College of Europe.
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Author Daskalova, Ana Editor Abass, Ademola
Gstöhl, Sieglinde
Keukeleire, Stephan
Kingah, Stephen
Lannon, Erwan
Van Langenhove, LukTitle To Be or Not to Be a Normative Power: The EU’s Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Russia Series Title Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers Volume/Issue No. 2 Publication Date 2013-09-01 Place of Publication Bruges Publisher United Nations University and College of Europe Pages XXXVI, 36 Language En Abstract The 'Normative Power Europe' debate has been a leitmotif in the academic discourse for over a decade. Far from being obsolete, the topic is as relevant as when the term was first coined by Ian Manners in 2002.1 'To be or not to be a normative power' is certainly one of the existential dilemmas in the foreign policy of the European Union. This paper, however, intends to move beyond the black-and-white debate on whether the European Union is a normative power and to make it more nuanced by examining the factors that make it such. Contrary to the conventional perception that the European Union is a necessarily 'benign' force in the world, it assumes that it has aspirations to be a viable international actor. Consequently, it pursues different types of foreign policy behaviour with a varying degree of normativity in them. The paper addresses the question of under what conditions the European Union is a 'normative power'. The findings of the study demonstrate that the 'normative power' of the European Union is conditioned upon internal and external elements, engaged in a complex interaction with a decisive role played by the often neglected external elements. UNBIS Thesaurus POLITICAL POWER
WORLD POLITICS
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