The EU and the Crisis of Liberal Order: At Home and Abroad

Lucarelli, Sonia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3264016

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“…Superficially at least, over this time period the European Union's external posture has also evolved from being essentially universalist/globalist to a more defensive engagement with the world. In particular, the 'migration crisis', which has led to real tensions within the EU, has also forced it to explicitly adopt a more preventative approach to control population movement, including agreements with authoritarian states rather than pressing them to reform (Lucarelli 2018). Within Europe, Brexit has forced the EU to consider the UK as an economic rival within Europe and inspired it to articulate a more explicit power-based rationale for European integration.…”

Section: The Changing Global Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Irreconcilable Tensions? The EU’s Development Policy in an Era of Global Illiberalism.

Holden¹

2020

JCER

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There have always been tensions within the EU's external development policy between ethical and self-interested approaches and also between universalist and realpolitik policies. The EU's structural economic power and global neoliberal dominance have allowed these tensions to be subsumed within its external policies. A range of factors has contributed to the rise of illiberalism globally, leading to heightened geoeconomic rivalry while complex changes in global development governance facilitate the use of aid as an instrument of political and economic self-interest. The EU has reacted to this by re-framing its political approach and policies in an effort to rebalance values and interests. A new realism entered EU discourse and there is evidence of this being applied in specific instruments and policies analysed here. Blended finance instruments are 'dual use' in that they can be used for more flexible development policies but also to support EU businesses more directly. The proposal to combine nearly all of the previous aid and cooperation instruments into one single legal instrument will also give the EU unprecedented flexibility to use aid funds for various political purposes. These changes are part of a more complex iterative process in the case of the EU than for other international actors. Interests and values are being reconfigured rather than jettisoned in a 'realist turn'. However, they still represent a significant adjustment for the EU in terms of aid priorities and modalities.

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Section: The Changing Global Political Economymentioning

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Irreconcilable Tensions? The EU’s Development Policy in an Era of Global Illiberalism.

Holden¹

2020

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“…For a deeper analysis of the different visions, values, principles which they embody and represent I refer to Sonia's Lucarelli paper on the EU and the Crisis of the Liberal Order, 36 as well as my Danish colleague's thesis on European Identity, 37 which capture this recent feature in European identity-building and politics.…”

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“…This is well-representative of what Hooghe and Marks define as the "transnational cleavage". 38 It is natural to see a clash among these identities on different sensitive issues, including migration, yet the contrast is paralysing any supranational action in this respect (G. Borsa, 2018). 39 However, there is no real interest by both parties to change the situation, while the European Council gives an institutional incentive to produce an artificial contrast among the factions which has as its main purpose the conservation of their power through domestic political gains.…”

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European Virtual Politics

Carboni

2019

Politeja

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Hooghe and Marks’ update of Rokkanian European cleavages recognises the existence of a European political arena with opposite poles. The paper first contrasts rhetorics on a European level by two European Council members at opposite poles, the French President E. Macron and the Hungarian President V. Orbán, then it compares their immigration policies on a national level. While a vast difference can be detected in the rhetorical dimension, their national regulations and executive decisions on immigration are stunningly similar. Such discrepancies are explained through an institutional analysis of the European Council, which gives structural incentives to perform “virtual politics” consisting of statements aimed at gathering domestic support against virtual “opponents”, while avoiding any political risky decisions at home. Furthermore, as theneoliberal nature of the EU incentivizes the status quo in this area, only pro-found institutional reform can lay the ground for a change.

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EU–Singapore Negotiations: Overlapping Negotiations, Conflicting Interests?

McKenzie

Meissner

2022

A Geo-Economic Turn in Trade Policy?

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The EU and the Crisis of Liberal Order: At Home and Abroad

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Irreconcilable Tensions? The EU’s Development Policy in an Era of Global Illiberalism.

Irreconcilable Tensions? The EU’s Development Policy in an Era of Global Illiberalism.

European Virtual Politics

EU–Singapore Negotiations: Overlapping Negotiations, Conflicting Interests?

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