Normative Power Europe: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Norms, Power and Europe: A New Agenda for Study of the EU and International Relations....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Legitimacy Through Norms: The Political Limits to Europe’s Normative Power....Pages 25-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy....Pages 45-64
Mind the Normative Gap? The EU in the South Caucasus....Pages 65-82
Power Discourses and Power Practices: The EU’s Role as a Normative Power in Bosnia....Pages 83-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Normative and Military Power in EU Peace Support Operations....Pages 103-126
The European Union, the United States and Global Public Goods: Competing Models or Two Sides of the Same Coin?....Pages 127-140
The EU’s Development Policy: Empirical Evidence of ‘Normative Power Europe?’....Pages 141-160
Promoting Labour Standards Through Trade: Normative Power or Regulatory State Europe?....Pages 161-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Human Security and the Search for a Normative Narrative....Pages 187-209
Normative Power Europe and Conflict Transformation....Pages 210-225
The European Union’s Normative Power: Critical Perspectives and Perspectives on the Critical....Pages 226-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-292