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Normative Power Europe Reconsidered

Manners, Ian LU orcid (2004) From Civilian to Military Power
Abstract
The themes of this workshop on EU civilian and military power mirror nicely the three aspects of normative power Europe that I set out to interrogate over five years ago (see a first consideration in Manners 2000a). As the above abstract from my JCMS article makes clear, I argued that previous theoretical accounts of the EU had underplayed the ontological conceptualisation of the EU as a changer of norms in the international system. I further argued that empirical investigations of the EU had also largely overlooked the positivist study of actions that the EU takes to change norms in the international system. Finally, I argued that examinations of the normative dilemmas of the EU’s relations with the rest of the world had not explicitly... (More)
The themes of this workshop on EU civilian and military power mirror nicely the three aspects of normative power Europe that I set out to interrogate over five years ago (see a first consideration in Manners 2000a). As the above abstract from my JCMS article makes clear, I argued that previous theoretical accounts of the EU had underplayed the ontological conceptualisation of the EU as a changer of norms in the international system. I further argued that empirical investigations of the EU had also largely overlooked the positivist study of actions that the EU takes to change norms in the international system. Finally, I argued that examinations of the normative dilemmas of the EU’s relations with the rest of the world had not explicitly considered the normative imperatives for arguing
that the EU should act to extend norms in the international system. (Less)
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European Union, External Action, normative power, critical social theory, cosmopolitics, cosmopolitian, communitarian, ontological security, reconciliation, politics of reconciliation, Hannah Arendt, Catherine Guisan, Craig Calhoun, War on Terror
pages
25 pages
conference name
From Civilian to Military Power
conference location
Oslo, Norway
conference dates
2004-10-22 - 2004-10-23
project
Ontological Security in the European Union
language
English
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  author       = {{Manners, Ian}},
  keywords     = {{European Union; External Action; normative power; critical social theory; cosmopolitics; cosmopolitian; communitarian; ontological security; reconciliation; politics of reconciliation; Hannah Arendt; Catherine Guisan; Craig Calhoun; War on Terror}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{Normative Power Europe Reconsidered}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/188733201/Ian_Manners_-_2004_-_Normative_Power_Reconsidered_-_CIDEL_Oslo_paper.pdf}},
  year         = {{2004}},
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