Theorizing Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations
(2018) In Middle East Critique 27(4). p.321-334- Abstract
- This article provides a theoretical perspective on the question of how EU-Israeli/Palestinian relations should be conceived 50 years after the occupation. The article sets out how a critical social theory of normative power could be seen as a way both of analyzing and changing these relations. According to Craig Calhoun, critical social theory should be seen as an ‘interpenetrating body of work which demands and produces critique… [that] depends on some manner of historical understanding and analysis.’ The normative power approach represents a critical social theory in that it seeks to be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. The article suggests how these criteria may be applied to the study of... (More)
- This article provides a theoretical perspective on the question of how EU-Israeli/Palestinian relations should be conceived 50 years after the occupation. The article sets out how a critical social theory of normative power could be seen as a way both of analyzing and changing these relations. According to Craig Calhoun, critical social theory should be seen as an ‘interpenetrating body of work which demands and produces critique… [that] depends on some manner of historical understanding and analysis.’ The normative power approach represents a critical social theory in that it seeks to be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. The article suggests how these criteria may be applied to the study of EU-Israeli/Palestinian relations and their consequences, 50 years after the occupation. (Less)
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- author
- Manners, Ian LU
- publishing date
- 2018-12-23
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- European Union, Israel, Palestine, Normative Power, occupation
- in
- Middle East Critique
- volume
- 27
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 2
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85059077913
- ISSN
- 1943-6149
- DOI
- 10.1080/19436149.2018.1510578
- project
- Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Special Issue: The occupation at 50: EU-Israel-Palestine relations since 1967
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- 625084e4-98a5-4204-909b-3ec09dd56ff8
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- 2021-02-18 21:41:02
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