Normative Power Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Norms, Power and Europe: A New Agenda for Study of the EU and International Relations

   1. Norms, Power and Europe: A New Agenda for Study of the EU and International Relations

      • Richard G. Whitman

      Pages 1-22

3. Perspective on Power

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   2. Legitimacy Through Norms: The Political Limits to Europe’s Normative Power

      • Chris J. Bickerton

      Pages 25-42

4. Norms and the Neighbourhood

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   2. The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy

      • Hiski Haukkala

      Pages 45-64

   3. Mind the Normative Gap? The EU in the South Caucasus

      • Emma J. Stewart

      Pages 65-82

   4. Power Discourses and Power Practices: The EU’s Role as a Normative Power in Bosnia

      • Ana E. Juncos

      Pages 83-99

5. Global Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Normative and Military Power in EU Peace Support Operations

      • Annika Björkdahl

      Pages 103-126

   3. The European Union, the United States and Global Public Goods: Competing Models or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

      • Michael Smith

      Pages 127-140

   4. The EU’s Development Policy: Empirical Evidence of ‘Normative Power Europe?’

      • Vicki L. Birchfield

      Pages 141-160

   5. Promoting Labour Standards Through Trade: Normative Power or Regulatory State Europe?

      • Jan Orbie

      Pages 161-184

6. Future Orientations

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   2. Human Security and the Search for a Normative Narrative

      • Mary Martin

      Pages 187-209

   3. Normative Power Europe and Conflict Transformation

      • Thomas Diez, Michelle Pace

      Pages 210-225

   4. The European Union’s Normative Power: Critical Perspectives and Perspectives on the Critical

      • Ian Manners

      Pages 226-247

7. Back Matter

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The notion of Normative Power Europe (NPE) is that the EU is an 'ideational' actor characterised by common principles and acting to diffuse norms within international relations. Contributors assess the impact of NPE and offer new perspectives for the future exploration of one of the most widely used ideas in the study of the EU in the last decade.

• conflict
• Europe
• European Neighbourhood
• European Neighbourhood Policy
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• international relations
• Policy
• transformation
• european union politics

• University of Kent, UK

  Richard G. Whitman

CHRIS J. BICKERTON is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands VICKI L. BIRCHFIELD is Associate Professor in The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, USA and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence ANNIKA BJÖRKDAHL is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden THOMAS DIEZ is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tübingen, Germany HISKI HAUKKALA is Special Adviser at the Unit for Policy Planning and Research, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland ANA E. JUNCOS is Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol, UK IAN MANNERS is Professor at the Institute for Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark MARY MARTIN is a Research Fellow on the Global Security Programme at LSE Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK JAN ORBIE is Professor in the rank of lecturer at the Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University, Belgium MICHELLE PACE is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK MICHAEL SMITH is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK EMMA J STEWART is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bath, UK

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