Normative power, European Union and a Candidate Country: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Response of Serbian Political Elite to the EU-promoted Environmental Norms
(2022) STVM23 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Recognizing the normative power that the European Union projects outside its borders within the environmental field, this thesis seeks to shed light on the norm-importer’s agency in the norm diffusion process. Serbia as a candidate country and its political elite are chosen as the main focus of the empirical analysis. Since Serbia wants to become a member of the EU, it is in its interest to adopt the “European way of doing things”. The thesis builds upon the theories of constructivism and Normative Power Europe and uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the interplay between the EU's environmental norms and local agency by analyzing how the Serbian political elite received the promoted norms. Serbian political elite is considered to... (More)
- Recognizing the normative power that the European Union projects outside its borders within the environmental field, this thesis seeks to shed light on the norm-importer’s agency in the norm diffusion process. Serbia as a candidate country and its political elite are chosen as the main focus of the empirical analysis. Since Serbia wants to become a member of the EU, it is in its interest to adopt the “European way of doing things”. The thesis builds upon the theories of constructivism and Normative Power Europe and uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the interplay between the EU's environmental norms and local agency by analyzing how the Serbian political elite received the promoted norms. Serbian political elite is considered to be a prominent cultural filter that has the agency to import norms and shape the public opinion, thus they play an important part in the norm diffusion process in a way that they construct domestic narratives related to the environmental norms that the EU wants to export. The findings indicate that the EU-promoted environmental norms have mostly positive connotations attached to them by the Serbian political elite, yet, they are more adapted to the local context, and sometimes even resisted, than adopted, as a consequence of different factors. (Less)
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- author
- Kujrakovic, Hata LU
- supervisor
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- Ian Manners LU
- organization
- course
- STVM23 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- European Union, Serbia, Europeanization, Norm Diffusion, Environmental Norms, Critical Discourse Analysis, Normative Power Europe
- language
- English
- id
- 9097348
- date added to LUP
- 2022-10-04 13:12:40
- date last changed
- 2022-10-04 13:12:40
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