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Ian Manners, photo.

Ian Manners

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Normative power Europe : a contradiction in terms?

Author

  • Ian Manners

Summary, in English

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’.

Publishing year

2002-06

Language

English

Pages

235-258

Publication/Series

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volume

40

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • European Union
  • Normative Power
  • EU
  • death penalty

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0021-9886