Liberal Power Europe

Wagner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1111/jcms.12572

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“…The Joint Communication identifies the following (universal) liberal values: ‘respect for democracy, rule of law, human and fundamental rights and […] inclusive long‐term security and progress’ (Commission and HR, 2017, p. 3; see also HR/VP, 2016, p. 13). All this chimes well with the idea of ‘normative power Europe’ (Manners, ) and that of ‘liberal power Europe’, which also applies to the economic sphere (Wagner, ). A resilient EU requires free markets and access to reliable energy‐producing and transit countries (HR/VP, 2016, p. 22).…”

Section: Translating the Resilience Discourse: Path Dependence Asupporting

confidence: 59%

Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

Joseph

Juncos

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article looks at the development of the resilience approach in EU foreign policy. Building state and societal resilience in the EU's neighbourhood has been identified as one of the key priorities in the EU global strategy. Here we critically analyse these developments and seek to provide an account of the complex dynamics within which the EU's approach to resilience is located. We argue that EU resilience-thinking is influenced by three broad dynamicsthe neoliberal and Anglo-Saxon approaches to resilience in the sphere of global governance; the particular normative discourse of the EU as a certain type of global actor (the EU as a normative/liberal power); and the multilevel character of the EU with its complex institutional structure and path dependencies which results in decoupling. As a consequence, the 'translation' of resilience constitutes an emergent project at the EU level, but also brings with it new challenges. The argument will be illustrated through a study of the EU global strategy and the Joint Communication on resilience in the neighbourhood.

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Section: Translating the Resilience Discourse: Path Dependence Asupporting

confidence: 59%

Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

Joseph

Juncos

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…In peacebuilding, the EU's normative power narrative emphasises core liberal norms, such as liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law as well as general peacebuilding goals such as facilitating the construction of the liberal state, human security and prosperity as a way of building peace (e.g. Tocci, 2008, Council of the EU 2009, Richmond et al 2011, Wagner, 2017. Key norms and peacebuilding objectives are often conceived as being positively related, or mutually reinforcing, as exemplified by the so-called "security-development" nexus (e.g.…”

Section: Normative Power Europe: the Eu's Liberal Peacebuilding Narramentioning

confidence: 99%

Normative power Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the EU’s peacebuilding narrative meets local narratives

Müller

2019

European Security

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This article conceives the EU's normative power in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a narrative that projects views of the international system, the EU's identity as a peacebuilder, and its positions on specific conflict issues. Highlighting the importance of local narratives as cultural filters, this article argues that a high degree of alignment of local narratives with key elements of the EU's normative power narrative facilitates positive images of the EU as a normative power in peacebuilding, whilst diverging local narratives tend to give rise to more critical views. Yet, the case of Palestine also shows that strong narrative alignment with the EU may encourage high expectations, resulting in critical views about inconsistencies between the EU's normative aspirations and its actual foreign policy conduct.

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“…Institutions are certainly fundamental but they produce effects via human agency. It is reductive to see them solely as the channel for Market Power Europe (Damro, ) or even Liberal Power Europe (Wagner, ). Following Duchêne, institutions can serve the vision of civilian power Europe (Duchêne, ).…”

Section: The Question Of Eu Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

What Has Nonviolence Got To Do With The EU?

Baldoli

Radaelli

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Nonviolence has an established tradition in several disciplines, including political theory, international relations and political science. But its potential for the European Union (EU) has not been appraised yet. Thus, we set out to explore nonviolence as an analytical and normative framework for the study of the EU. At the outset, we introduce nonviolence and define our approach to this concept. We then apply our analytical and normative framework to three critical issues concerning the nature of EU power, the democratic deficit and the narrative of integration. We find that nonviolence re-defines the core dimensions of power and democracy, and imagines the EU in non-state-morphic ways, situating praxis at the roots of the integration process and its narrative.

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Liberal Power Europe

Cited by 43 publications

References 59 publications

Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn

Normative power Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the EU’s peacebuilding narrative meets local narratives

What Has Nonviolence Got To Do With The EU?

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