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Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?[Note 1. I am very grateful to Ruth Abbey, Mathias Albert, ...]
Author(s) -
Manners Ian
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5965.00353
Subject(s) - normative , contradiction , european union , power (physics) , political science , international relations , european community , security policy , international community , political economy , law and economics , sociology , law , positive economics , international trade , politics , economics , epistemology , philosophy , computer security , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science
Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies , Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community’s ‘civilian power’ in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of ‘military power Europe’. In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU’s international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a ‘normative power Europe’.