Author (Person) | Daskalova, Ana |
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Publisher | College of Europe |
Series Title | Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers |
Series Details | No.2, September 2013 |
Publication Date | September 2013 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
Abstract: 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. |
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Source Link | https://www.coleurope.eu/system/files_force/research-paper/brigg_2_2013_daskalova.pdf?download=1 |
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Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations, Values and Beliefs |
Countries / Regions | Europe, Russia |
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