Author (Person) | de Zutter, Elizabeth |
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Series Title | Journal of European Public Policy |
Series Details | Vol.17, No.8, December 2010, p1106-1127 |
Publication Date | December 2010 |
ISSN | 1350-1763 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
This article presents a renewed critical engagement with normative power. It overcomes the conceptual vagueness and force-for-good connotation inherent in much of the scholarship on normative power by privileging the ontological question and concentrates on what is a normative power. It offers a characterization of normative power and argues that neither universal norms nor a particular set of instruments can be considered as ontological necessities. They do determine the forms of normative power: cosmopolitan; soft imperialist; and despotic. The four-step methodology, presented in this article, to 'spot' a normative power and the forms of normative power rely on a clear distinction between the ethical and the ontological question on normative power. It does not ignore ethical considerations; rather the comparison of different forms of normative power offers the intellectual tools to recognize deviations from the ethical ideal-type of cosmopolitan normative power. |
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Source Link | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ |
Subject Categories | Security and Defence |
Countries / Regions | Europe |
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