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EUs globala strategi – ett regionalt säkerhetsprojekt

Boris, Aina LU (2019) STVK02 20182
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This thesis is a discourse theoretical analysis of the European Unions foreign- and security policy. I use a discourse theoretical method inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and use their concepts of nodal points, elements, moments and chains of equivalence. In my analysis I draw upon theories in relation to different kinds of power in international relations and especially in relation to the European Union. The theoretical framework is more specifically centred around the balance between the Unions traditional use of soft power and the current development of hard power in the pursuit of spreading normative views and the creation of peace and security in the European region. The analysis is parted in two, where the first maps out... (More)
This thesis is a discourse theoretical analysis of the European Unions foreign- and security policy. I use a discourse theoretical method inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and use their concepts of nodal points, elements, moments and chains of equivalence. In my analysis I draw upon theories in relation to different kinds of power in international relations and especially in relation to the European Union. The theoretical framework is more specifically centred around the balance between the Unions traditional use of soft power and the current development of hard power in the pursuit of spreading normative views and the creation of peace and security in the European region. The analysis is parted in two, where the first maps out the construction of the Unions self-images in relation to security policy and what they express in relation to the theoretical framework. In the second part I explore how the self-images in the Global Strategy are translated into more applicable politics in the European Council’s implementation plan for security and defence and the European Commission’s Joint Communication for External Action. The self-image of the threatened union and the creation of a need for a stronger union and the securitization this constitutes is central to the creation of the Council’s implementation plan. The global and broad view of foreign- and security policy created in the Global Strategy is crucial for the creation of a holistic approach to resilience in the Joint Communication. The Global Strategy is described as a document which policies should have global reach, but in translation of the document in the Council’s plan and the Commission’s Joint Communication the policies become more regional than global. (Less)
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author
Boris, Aina LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK02 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
The European Union, foreign- and security policy, civil power, normative power, hard power, A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy.
language
Swedish
id
8965216
date added to LUP
2019-03-21 09:57:51
date last changed
2019-03-21 09:57:51
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  abstract     = {{This thesis is a discourse theoretical analysis of the European Unions foreign- and security policy. I use a discourse theoretical method inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and use their concepts of nodal points, elements, moments and chains of equivalence. In my analysis I draw upon theories in relation to different kinds of power in international relations and especially in relation to the European Union. The theoretical framework is more specifically centred around the balance between the Unions traditional use of soft power and the current development of hard power in the pursuit of spreading normative views and the creation of peace and security in the European region. The analysis is parted in two, where the first maps out the construction of the Unions self-images in relation to security policy and what they express in relation to the theoretical framework. In the second part I explore how the self-images in the Global Strategy are translated into more applicable politics in the European Council’s implementation plan for security and defence and the European Commission’s Joint Communication for External Action. The self-image of the threatened union and the creation of a need for a stronger union and the securitization this constitutes is central to the creation of the Council’s implementation plan. The global and broad view of foreign- and security policy created in the Global Strategy is crucial for the creation of a holistic approach to resilience in the Joint Communication. The Global Strategy is described as a document which policies should have global reach, but in translation of the document in the Council’s plan and the Commission’s Joint Communication the policies become more regional than global.}},
  author       = {{Boris, Aina}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{EUs globala strategi – ett regionalt säkerhetsprojekt}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}