Ian Manners
Professor
European Union ‘Normative Power’ and the Security Challenge
Författare
Summary, in English
In this discussion of security and democracy in the European Union two interrelated arguments are put forward about the use of normative power to address the security challenge. The article starts by discussing the European (security) Union within the context of over 15 years of European human security debates, and then reflects on the current conduct of the total war on terror as led by the USA. The author argues for the need to be normative in the EU's security policies and concludes by considering the normative security dilemmas that the EU and its member states face over security and democracy, war and peace. He reiterates the argument that the EU should and must apply its own normative principles to the security challenge if we are ever to move beyond total war and towards sustainable peace.
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
405-421
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Security
Volym
15
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- European Union
- European (security) Union
- desecuritising
- human security
- ontological security
- sustainable peace
- democracy
- total war on terror
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1746-1545