Civilian or Military Power? : European Foreign Policy in Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415380485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 172 str.

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Opis

Examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a 'normative', 'civilian' and 'civilising' power. This work establishes criteria and assessment standards for examining the EU's international role and its putative normative dimension.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Normative Power Europe Reconsidered  2. Roadmap for a Route-March? (De-)Civilianising through the EU’s Security Strategy  3. The EU, Power and Coercion: From ‘Civilian’ to ‘Civilising’ Power  4. What Legitimacy for the European Security and Defence Policy?  5. The European Union as a ‘Normative Power’: How Can this Be?  6. Towards a Cosmopolitan Europe?  7. Ontological Security: Implications for the EU  8. ‘Legitimacy by Contagion’: A Sociological Institutionalist Analysis of the EU Mediterranean Policy

O autorze

Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at Arena – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. She has written extensively on international relations, in particular on the foreign and security policy of the European Union, and on the question of EU enlargement.