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Ian Manners, photo.

Ian Manners

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Ian Manners, photo.

Theorizing Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations

Author

  • Ian Manners

Summary, in English

This article provides a theoretical perspective on the question of how EU-Israeli/Palestinian relations should be conceived 50 years after the occupation. The article sets out how a critical social theory of normative power could be seen as a way both of analyzing and changing these relations. According to Craig Calhoun, critical social theory should be seen as an ‘interpenetrating body of work which demands and produces critique… [that] depends on some manner of historical understanding and analysis.’ The normative power approach represents a critical social theory in that it seeks to be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. The article suggests how these criteria may be applied to the study of EU-Israeli/Palestinian relations and their consequences, 50 years after the occupation.

Publishing year

2018-12-23

Language

English

Pages

321-334

Publication/Series

Middle East Critique

Volume

27

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • European Union
  • Israel
  • Palestine
  • Normative Power
  • occupation

Status

Published

Project

  • Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1943-6149