European perspectives towards the rise of Asia: contextualising the debate

Simón, Luis; Klose, Stephan

doi:10.1007/s10308-015-0440-z

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“…Following interviews with EU and Member State officials, a crucial challenge for the EU in its quest to realize its security role in East Asia has been the expectation, shared by most regional actors, that a security role implies the projection of military power (Interviews with EEAS officials, May–July 2016; March–April, 2017; German, French and British government officials, July 2016). This expectation has been problematic, not only in light of the EU's limited capacity to perform as a military actor in East Asia, but also in view of strong Member State reservations towards positioning the EU as such (Interviews with EEAS officials, May–July 2016; March–April 2017; see also Simon and Klose, ). To overcome this problem, the EU has sought to alter the role expectations of regional actors through the creative use of available resources.…”

Section: The Eu's Emerging Security Actorness In East Asia: An Interamentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing the EU's Actorness: Towards an Interactionist Role Theory Framework

Klose

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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For decades, actorness has been a much‐debated concept central to the theorization and analysis of the EU's evolution as an international actor. While this concept is often presented as a set of factors, which together shape the EU's capacity to act internationally, the literature displays a surprisingly deficient understanding of how these factors interact in the emergence of actorness. To address this gap, this article theorizes about actorness from an interactionist role theory perspective, which draws on the works of social psychologist George Herbert Mead. In building on this perspective, the article conceptualizes actorness as an entity's capacity to (re)‐imagine and realize roles for its ‘self’ in (specific contexts of) international affairs. This capacity, the approach suggests, emerges in the interplay of (social and material) resources, creative action and (domestic and external) role expectations.

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Section: The Eu's Emerging Security Actorness In East Asia: An Interamentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing the EU's Actorness: Towards an Interactionist Role Theory Framework

Klose

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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“…On the contrary, most EU countries do not view China's emergence as a challenge for either the regional or the global order, and consequently they do not share Washington's concerns. Moreover, there are several important common features in Europe's and China's approaches towards security in the Asia-Pacific (Simón and Klose 2016). Of course, China and the EU diverge on some important points.…”

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