What kind of power?

Sjursen, Helene

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“…This question, in order to produce a complete analysis of EU foreign policy, must be answered from an EU and external perspective. Sjursen (2006b) adds to this by stating that the assessment of EU foreign policy is lacking in two areas: the first is a need to have a more rigorous theoretical analysis of the justification of norms and how to clarify just in what way the EU is -or is not -a normative power. The second is a heightened focus on empirical analysis to which a conceptual framework can be applied.…”

Section: Studies Of Eu External Action: An Expanded Research Agenda Amentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Most importantly, it demonstrates that EU power is often framed in a way that obscures an understanding of EU external action. Moreover, using the term 'power' in conjunction with other terms such as 'normative' and 'ethical' is potentially contradictory, or at minimum gives an oxymoronic message (Sjursen, 2006b). For example, when considering the EU's relations with ASEAN, the use of the term 'power' is incorrect.…”

Section: Power Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%

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The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Allison

2015

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Thanks to consecutive rounds of enlargement and the stepwise broadening and deepening of internal integration, the EU now undeniably plays a key role in international politics, law and economics. At the same time, changes in the international system continue to pose new challenges to the EU. The range of policies implied by the EU's international 'actorness' grows with every summit, and the EU regularly 'imports' and increasingly 'exports' various policies.Against this backdrop, this book series aims to be a central resource for the growing community of scholars and policy-makers interested in understanding the interface between the EU and international affairs. It will provide indepth, cutting-edge contributions to research on the EU in international affairs by highlighting new developments, insights, challenges and opportunities. It will encompass analyses of the EU's international role, as mediated by its own Member States, in international institutions and in its strategic bilateral and regional partnerships. It will further examine the ongoing profusion of EU internal policies with external implications and the ways in which these are both driven by and feed back into international developments. Grounded in political science (and its various sub-disciplines, including International Relations and International Political Economy), law, sociology and history, the series reflects an inter-disciplinary commitment.

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Section: Studies Of Eu External Action: An Expanded Research Agenda Amentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Power Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%

The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

Allison

2015

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“…By retaining but fragmenting the 'civilian'/ 'normative' dimension, it intends to offer conceptual lenses that are neither EU-constrained nor EU-averse. 3 Most importantly, the devised framework conforms to the broad configuration sketched by Sjursen (2006a) but deviates from the narrow pathways outlined by the author. 'Moral power' as a conceptual framework differs in its sheer range: it can be further ontologically bolstered through combination of constructivism, (neo)realism and (neo)liberalism, epistemologically expanded by drawing on normative and positivist approaches, and being methodologically qualitative it can be complemented with a quantitative dimension.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

‘Moral power’ as objectification of the ‘civilian’/‘normative’ ‘EUlogy’: the European Union as a conflict-dealer in the South Caucasus

Vasilyan

2013

J Int Relat Dev

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“…In addition to an affiliation as 'research associate' with a European development agency in Nairobi, the author conducted a total of 55 interviews with 60 informants from European agencies (23 informants), African institutions (21 informants) and other donor organisations (16 informants). 3 For different, more critical viewpoints on the EU's normative character in relation to military capacities see Sjursen (2006Sjursen ( , 2007. 4 In the context of this article, I thus use the term 'EU geopolitical discourse' to refer to the approaches of civilian and normative power as the two dominant discourses on Europe's collective geopolitical identity and role.…”

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The EU's civilian/power dilemma

Bachmann

2012

Comp Eur Polit

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This article exposes the dilemma between the EU's civilian geopolitical model and its role as a dominant geoeconomic power. While the success of the European model for political-economic organisation and for overcoming war is appealing, the EU's external relations frequently fail to avoid the traps of Europe's imperial past (and present), thus undermining the EU's credibility and legitimacy in international development policy. This article therefore argues for a critical engagement with views on the EU from the outside. It draws on qualitative fieldwork on EU development policy in East Africa and illustrates how such external perceptions sometimes differ considerably from dominant European ones articulated in official EU geopolitical discourse.

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What kind of power?

Cited by 148 publications

References 27 publications

The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

The EU, ASEAN and Interregionalism

‘Moral power’ as objectification of the ‘civilian’/‘normative’ ‘EUlogy’: the European Union as a conflict-dealer in the South Caucasus

The EU's civilian/power dilemma

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