Normative Power Europe - Nonsense? A Role Theoretical Approach to EU-Africa Relations
(2022) STVK03 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The European Union is often characterised as a normative power; an actor that is driven by values and principles such as democracy, liberty, peace and the rule of law. This thesis investigates whether the European Union perceives itself as such through a qualitative case study of how the EU perceives its role in Africa. It utilises role theory – in the form of a typology of national role conceptions – and aims to challenge the conception of the European Union as a normative power by textual analysis of EU-documents that guide the common foreign- and security policy as well as conclusions from the Council of the European Union. It finds that characterising the European Union as a normative power in Africa is not nonsense, but that the union... (More)
- The European Union is often characterised as a normative power; an actor that is driven by values and principles such as democracy, liberty, peace and the rule of law. This thesis investigates whether the European Union perceives itself as such through a qualitative case study of how the EU perceives its role in Africa. It utilises role theory – in the form of a typology of national role conceptions – and aims to challenge the conception of the European Union as a normative power by textual analysis of EU-documents that guide the common foreign- and security policy as well as conclusions from the Council of the European Union. It finds that characterising the European Union as a normative power in Africa is not nonsense, but that the union also perceives itself as a diplomatic power as well as a military power to some extent in Africa. (Less)
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- author
- Dybjer, Paul LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK03 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- EU, EU-Africa relations, role theory, EU role conceptions, normative power
- language
- English
- id
- 9080155
- date added to LUP
- 2022-07-03 08:41:33
- date last changed
- 2022-07-03 08:41:33
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