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The Construction of EU Normative Power *
Author(s) -
PACE MICHELLE
Publication year - 2007
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/j.1468-5965.2007.00759.x
Subject(s) - normative , power (physics) , political science , point (geometry) , law and economics , international trade , epistemology , sociology , business , law , mathematics , philosophy , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics
This article focuses on the constructed nature of the EU's so‐called ‘normative power’ (NPEU). It proposes that, while a successful construction of NPEU would secure a role for the EU globally, challenges to NPEU constructions would disempower any EU attempts at its global reach based on such projections. The Middle East conflict is taken as a case in point.