Civilian Or Military Power? - European Foreign Policy in Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at Arena – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. She has written extensively on international relations, in particular on the foreign and security policy of the European Union, and on the question of EU enlargement. Zusammenfassung This text critically examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a ‘normative’, ‘civilian’ and ‘civilising’ power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Normative Power Europe Reconsidered 2. Roadmap for a Route-March? (De-)Civilianising through the EU’s Security Strategy 3. The EU, Power and Coercion: From ‘Civilian’ to ‘Civilising’ Power 4. What Legitimacy for the European Security and Defence Policy? 5. The European Union as a ‘Normative Power’: How Can this Be? 6. Towards a Cosmopolitan Europe? 7. Ontological Security: Implications for the EU 8. ‘Legitimacy by Contagion’: A Sociological Institutionalist Analysis of the EU Mediterranean Policy

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• Authors: Helene Sjursen
• Assisted by: Helene Sjursen (Editor), Sjursen Helene (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415380485
• ISBN: 978-0-415-38048-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Journal of European Public Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, International institutions