Civilian or Military Power?

European Foreign Policy in Perspective
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-38048-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Journal of European Public Policy Series

This text critically examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a ‘normative’, ‘civilian’ and ‘civilizing’ power. The contributors question whether this assertion fits with the empirical record or is merely based on anecdotal evidence and whether there is a theoretical basis for the expectation of a ‘normative’ or ‘civilizing’ power. Moving the research agenda forward, the book establishes criteria and assessment standards for examining the EU’s international role and its putative normative dimension. Such an endeavour is particularly important against the backdrop of recent developments in European security and defence. The acquisition of military means, or the EU’s ambition to acquire such means, might weaken at least the argument that the EU is a ‘civilian’ power and could provoke a shift towards a policy more akin to traditional ‘great powers.'

This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sjursen, Helene

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Normative Power Europe Reconsidered 2. Roadmap for a Route-March? (De-)Civilianising through the EU’s Security Strategy 3. The EU, Power and Coercion: From ‘Civilian’ to ‘Civilising’ Power 4. What Legitimacy for the European Security and Defence Policy? 5. The European Union as a ‘Normative Power’: How Can this Be? 6. Towards a Cosmopolitan Europe? 7. Ontological Security: Implications for the EU 8. ‘Legitimacy by Contagion’: A Sociological Institutionalist Analysis of the EU Mediterranean Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at Arena – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. She has written extensively on international relations, in particular on the foreign and security policy of the European Union, and on the question of EU enlargement.