A Power in Transition? An Analysis of the EU´s Role Conception through the Global Gateway Initiative
(2023) STVK12 20231Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Born into the context of tense geopolitical competition, the Global Gateway
Initiative has shown the motivation of the European Union to take on a more
ambitious role as a global actor. A trend in the academic literature hints at a
shift towards a more pragmatic and geopolitically oriented paradigm in the
EU´s foreign policy. In order to investigate how the EU envisions its own role,
this paper adopts a theoretical framework based on role conception.
Qualitative content analysis is used to analyse communication material
published by the European Union on the Global Gateway Initiative. The
results suggest that the EU´s role conception is ambiguous. In conclusion, this
paper provides three hypotheses arguing that the... (More) - Born into the context of tense geopolitical competition, the Global Gateway
Initiative has shown the motivation of the European Union to take on a more
ambitious role as a global actor. A trend in the academic literature hints at a
shift towards a more pragmatic and geopolitically oriented paradigm in the
EU´s foreign policy. In order to investigate how the EU envisions its own role,
this paper adopts a theoretical framework based on role conception.
Qualitative content analysis is used to analyse communication material
published by the European Union on the Global Gateway Initiative. The
results suggest that the EU´s role conception is ambiguous. In conclusion, this
paper provides three hypotheses arguing that the inconclusive results hint at
the EU being a “power in transition”, a “power in crisis” or a political actor
with a complicated decision–making process. (Less)
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- author
- Stecker, Klara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK12 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- European Union, Role Conception, Global Gateway Initiative, Geopolitics, Belt and Road Initiative
- language
- English
- id
- 9116224
- date added to LUP
- 2023-09-07 17:04:59
- date last changed
- 2023-09-07 17:04:59
@misc{9116224, abstract = {{Born into the context of tense geopolitical competition, the Global Gateway Initiative has shown the motivation of the European Union to take on a more ambitious role as a global actor. A trend in the academic literature hints at a shift towards a more pragmatic and geopolitically oriented paradigm in the EU´s foreign policy. In order to investigate how the EU envisions its own role, this paper adopts a theoretical framework based on role conception. Qualitative content analysis is used to analyse communication material published by the European Union on the Global Gateway Initiative. The results suggest that the EU´s role conception is ambiguous. In conclusion, this paper provides three hypotheses arguing that the inconclusive results hint at the EU being a “power in transition”, a “power in crisis” or a political actor with a complicated decision–making process.}}, author = {{Stecker, Klara}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{A Power in Transition? An Analysis of the EU´s Role Conception through the Global Gateway Initiative}}, year = {{2023}}, }