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Are sanctions actually justifiable?

Malcus Pellmé, Agnes LU (2024) STVK04 20232
Department of Political Science
Abstract
There has been an upswing of liberal governments within the European Union over the past few decades and a way of handling these developments have been sanctions. Countries such as Poland, Hungary and Austria all have in various ways seen the consequences of these sanctions. This thesis examines whether the use of sanctions towards member states in the EU should be seen as justifiable if a state violates the fundamental values of Article 2 TEU. With the use of a normative given-that analysis, alongside a meta-analysis the thesis compares and discusses previous research and material in order to come to a conclusion. According to the strictly logical reasoning of the Article 7 TEU the simple answer is yes. Sanctions are justifiable. However,... (More)
There has been an upswing of liberal governments within the European Union over the past few decades and a way of handling these developments have been sanctions. Countries such as Poland, Hungary and Austria all have in various ways seen the consequences of these sanctions. This thesis examines whether the use of sanctions towards member states in the EU should be seen as justifiable if a state violates the fundamental values of Article 2 TEU. With the use of a normative given-that analysis, alongside a meta-analysis the thesis compares and discusses previous research and material in order to come to a conclusion. According to the strictly logical reasoning of the Article 7 TEU the simple answer is yes. Sanctions are justifiable. However, with the implications of normative European integration theory the answer is more intricate. Nevertheless the ideologies of cosmopolitanism, statism and demoicracy leads to the same conclusion. Sanctions should be seen as justifiable. (Less)
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author
Malcus Pellmé, Agnes LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A normative study on how scholars have discussed the use of sanctions as a method to preserve the principles of the European Union
course
STVK04 20232
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Sanctions, Article 7 TEU, Article 2 TEU, Democratic backsliding, The EU
language
English
id
9142691
date added to LUP
2024-03-12 15:11:26
date last changed
2024-03-12 15:11:26
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  abstract     = {{There has been an upswing of liberal governments within the European Union over the past few decades and a way of handling these developments have been sanctions. Countries such as Poland, Hungary and Austria all have in various ways seen the consequences of these sanctions. This thesis examines whether the use of sanctions towards member states in the EU should be seen as justifiable if a state violates the fundamental values of Article 2 TEU. With the use of a normative given-that analysis, alongside a meta-analysis the thesis compares and discusses previous research and material in order to come to a conclusion. According to the strictly logical reasoning of the Article 7 TEU the simple answer is yes. Sanctions are justifiable. However, with the implications of normative European integration theory the answer is more intricate. Nevertheless the ideologies of cosmopolitanism, statism and demoicracy leads to the same conclusion. Sanctions should be seen as justifiable.}},
  author       = {{Malcus Pellmé, Agnes}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Are sanctions actually justifiable?}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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