EU normative performance: a critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan

Bosse, Giselle

doi:10.1080/21599165.2017.1280472

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“…In my work on a critical theory perspective on EU normative performance (Bosse, 2017), I identified that two aspects of Habermas's work in particular are relevant for defining the standards of EU moral authority with regards to resorting to unilateral coercive measures.…”

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Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions

Bosse

2022

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The European Union (EU) states in its 2016 Global Strategy that it intends to be a “responsible global stakeholder” and to “act worldwide to address the core causes of war and poverty, as well as to promote the indivisibility and universality of human rights” (European Union Global Strategy, 2016, pp. 5–8, 18). However, the Global Strategy is silent on the credentials or prerequisites that give the EU the authority to act globally and address conflicts and violations of human rights, including through the use of sanctions against non-EU states. How far the EU has the authority to use sanctions, which are essentially coercive measures, is especially relevant when the EU resorts to unilateral sanctions based on obligations owed <em>erga omnes</em>, namely measures without explicit United Nations Security Council authorisation and based on obligations owed to the international community as a whole. Drawing on Habermas’s theory of communicative action, this article introduces an analytical framework—the “moral dimension” of EU authority—which maps the substantive and procedural standards to guide the assessment of whether the EU has the appropriate credentials to qualify as an authority with the right to intervene forcibly into the internal affairs of non-EU states. The analytical value of the framework is examined empirically in the case study of the EU’s restrictive measures (sanctions) imposed in response to state violence against anti-government protests in Uzbekistan in 2005.

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“…Habermas argues that the ideal speech situation, that is, the ideal process of fair communication, depends on three main standards (cf. Habermas, 2006, p. 185; see also Bjola, 2005, p. 280;Bosse, 2017;Head, 2008) which must be met for deliberative legitimacy to be achieved:…”

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Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions

Bosse

2022

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“…In Ukraine, as Burluyk and Shapovalova (2017, this Special Issue) explain, the EU leverage to the mobilisation of the Ukrainian civil society and opposition made a significant contribution via numerous visits of EU officials and the EP monitoring Cox-Kwasniewski mission. On the other hand, in the process that led to deciding on the EU's arms embargo on Uzbekistan, the European Parliament was excluded, as Bosse (2017) shows. In addition, by assessing the performance of the pre-accession PHARE funds for civil society development in Bulgaria, Hristova (2017) points out that policy transfers were incomplete.…”

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Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood

Papadimitriou

Baltag

Surubaru

2017

East European Politics

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More than a decade after the big bang enlargement, it seems that the European Union (EU) and its Central and Eastern European member-states have mutually adapted to one another. The debates regarding the historical implications of enlargement have now reduced in tempo and much of Eastern Europe seems to be an integral part of the European integration project. After the accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007 (and Croatia in 2013), and in light of the EU's internal troubles, enlargement has been sidelined from the EU agenda. The issue of the EU's performance in the "wider Eastern Europe" remains poignant, not least because of current developments in its "neighbourhood" (such as the crisis in Ukraine or Moldova's downturn from success story to a captured state), the uneven pattern of reform across some of the recently admitted states (such as the turmoil in Hungary and Poland or the ongoing monitoring of Bulgaria and Romania in the area of rule of law), and the evident slow pace of progress and even back-sliding in parts of the Western Balkans (e.g. Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia). These cases, inter alia, illustrate that the EU's performance in the area is neither linear nor uncontested. Thus, questions regarding EU performance reoccur frequently and very often, its "transformative power" can be called into question. What determines EU performance in Central and Eastern Europe and in its Neighbourhood? What are the conditions that influence it? This collective inquiry addresses some of these questions. Much of the EU's own discourse puts emphasis on "performance" as a key driver of its policies and engagement with its partners (

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Vatsov¹

2023

Fishing Power Europe

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EU normative performance: a critical theory perspective on the EU’s response to the massacre in Andijon, Uzbekistan

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Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions

Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions

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