Normative Power Europe: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figure......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
1 Norms, Power and Europe: A New Agenda for Study of the EU and International Relations......Page 16
Part I: Perspectives on Power......Page 38
2 Legitimacy Through Norms: The Political Limits to Europe’s Normative Power......Page 40
Part II: Norms and the Neighbourhood......Page 58
3 The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy......Page 60
4 Mind the Normative Gap? The EU in the South Caucasus......Page 80
5 Power Discourses and Power Practices: The EU’s Role as a Normative Power in Bosnia......Page 98
Part III: Global Perspectives......Page 116
6 Normative and Military Power in EU Peace Support Operations......Page 118
7 The European Union, the United States and Global Public Goods: Competing Models or Two Sides of the Same Coin?......Page 142
8 The EU’s Development Policy: Empirical Evidence of ‘Normative Power Europe?’......Page 156
9 Promoting Labour Standards Through Trade: Normative Power or Regulatory State Europe?......Page 176
Part IV: Future Orientations......Page 200
10 Human Security and the Search for a Normative Narrative......Page 202
11 Normative Power Europe and Conflict Transformation......Page 225
12 The European Union’s Normative Power: Critical Perspectives and Perspectives on the Critical......Page 241
Bibliography......Page 263
Index......Page 293