Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia

Klinke, Ian

doi:10.1080/09668136.2012.676237

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“…Klinke makes this argument regarding EU–Russia relations, arguing that European superiority is grounded in a ‘spatiotemporal relationship’ based on difference and a historical master/apprentice relationship (Klinke, , p. 712). The European view of its Others thus requires a modern temporality in which the binary ‘postmodern‐modern’ effectively translates as ‘modern‐backward’ (Klinke, , p. 930). Prozorov shows empirically and theoretically that this ‘temporal othering’ cannot absolve itself of spatial markers: ‘Spatial othering is not simply an unfortunate complement to temporal self‐differentiation but rather the only way the latter can take place in empirical reality’ (Prozorov, , p. 1283).…”

Section: A Normative Power For Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Staeger

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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The debate on NPE (Normative Power Europe) has flourished for more than a decade. NPE has shaped Africa-EU relations considerably, especially since the founding of the AU (African Union). Yet while the EU aspires to be a post-imperial, normative power, this postcolonial critique suggests NPE is a neo-Kantian, Eurocentric discourse that reinvigorates an outdated European moral paternalism. The article explores the role of NPE in Africa-EU relations through a Foucauldian conceptualization of knowledge in EU foreign policy, and insists particularly on how pan-African regionalization and NPE led to unwarranted optimism about deploying European norms in Africa. To the contrary, a decolonial perspective reveals that AU-EU inter-regional structural and organizational convergence enchains only frail normative convergence, which will diminish as the pan-African project unfolds further.

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Section: A Normative Power For Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Staeger

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…It is also based on a modern, rather than post-modern, 'othering' which seeks to transform the 'other' through 'Europeanisation'-essentially, a retreat to a 'colonialist interpretation of Westernness as goodness' (Medvedev 2008, p. 231)-rather than accepting its differences. Klinke (2012) makes an analogous point, directly challenging the 'postmodern label'. He argues that the EU displays archetypically 'modern' thinking in its conception of itself as postmodern: it sees itself as embodying the next stage of the development of humankind, in a teleological idea of progress.…”

Section: Russia's Evolving Relationship To Eu Normsmentioning

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Russia’s Complex Engagement with European Union Norms: Sovereign Democracy versus Post-Westphalianism?

Headley

2015

Importing EU Norms

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“…Russia is a classic 'modern' state in that it talks about territory, national identity and traditional geopolitics. The EU, however, is 'post-modern' in that it goes beyond the nation state and embodies transnationalism, multi-level governance (Klinke, 2012). In its diplomacy it wishes to talk values, while Russia still wishes to talk traditional state interests.…”

Section: A Russian Model Of Modernisation?mentioning

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The Partnership for Modernisation: Contradictions of the Russian Modernisation Agenda

Flenley

2014

European Politics and Society

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The Partnership for Modernisation was an attempt to re-set the EU-Russia relationship. This article discusses how far modernisation can be the basis for a more productive relationship. The article argues that rather than a shared approach with the EU there is a particular, historical Russian approach to modernisation. It discusses how far this constitutes a separate model and identifies a range of problems such as corruption and human rights which undermine this model even in its own terms. The article suggests that modernisation is indeed a basis for a continuing EU-Russia partnership, in spite of recent crises. However, it has to be a partnership which accepts the specificity of Russian development yet also helps deliver a more sustainable path of modernisation.Reference to modernisation has been a perennial feature of western writing on the history of Russia (Dixon, 1999, p. 5). There have been few periods in Russian history when western observers have not talked of Russia undergoing 'modernisation'. Russian and Soviet leaders from Peter the Great and Alexander II to Stalin, Gorbachev and now Putin have also seen themselves as modernisers. In addition modernisation has in one way or another been undertaken with reference to the West, whether as a model, a useful source of technology or in competition with it. The launching of the Partnership for Modernisation (P4M) between the EU and Russia at the EU-Russia summit in Rostov-on-Don on 1 June 2010 therefore resonates with key historical themes in the Russian-western relationship.The purpose of this article is to explore the significance of this new 'partnership' both in the context of recent EU-Russia relations and in the context of broader perceptions of modernisation both within Russia and in the West. It argues that while the language of

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Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia

Cited by 43 publications

References 40 publications

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique

Russia’s Complex Engagement with European Union Norms: Sovereign Democracy versus Post-Westphalianism?

The Partnership for Modernisation: Contradictions of the Russian Modernisation Agenda

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