A Critical Copenhagen Reflection on the European Union as a Global Actor
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A Critical Copenhagen Reflection on the European Union as a Global Actor. / Manners, Ian James.
The EU as a Global Actor: 'A Force for Good in the World?'. red. / Anja Franck; Fredrik Söderbaum. Gothenburg : Centre for European Research (CERGU), 2016.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - A Critical Copenhagen Reflection on the European Union as a Global Actor
AU - Manners, Ian James
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - As the introductory chapter sets out, this volume critically interrogates the EU as a global actor and its normative power in global politics as part of the 2013 European Research Day of the Centre for European Research at Gothenburg University. This chapter will conclude this interrogation by providing a Copenhagen reflection on the EU as a global actor within the context of the Normative Power Approach (NPA). The chapter engages in a critical Copenhagen reflection, which means that it takes seriously the insights of critical social theory and the role of cultural hegemony. The chapter argues that the NPA must be understood within the context of two decades of Copenhagen critical social theory as this is where the approach was born and where I have worked intermittently since 2000. The chapter is organised as follows: first it will set out critical social theory and a Copenhagen reflection on the EU as a global actor. Second it engages with Franck and Lorenzoni’s chapter on postcolonialism in the NPA. Third it interacts with Jonasson’s chapter on the EU and the Mediterranean region through an examination of the EU’s consensual democracy support approach. Fourth the chapter contemplates Söderbaum’s analysis of the EU and Africa by comparing sustainable peacebuilding and social solidarity in development cooperation. The chapter concludes by reflecting on what the book says about the study of the EU as a global actor in a Nordic context. The chapter argues that the CERGU European Research Day and the contributing chapters demonstrate just how well developed the study of the EU as a global actor has become in the Nordic region over the past two decades since the Swedish and Finnish membership of the EU in 1995.
AB - As the introductory chapter sets out, this volume critically interrogates the EU as a global actor and its normative power in global politics as part of the 2013 European Research Day of the Centre for European Research at Gothenburg University. This chapter will conclude this interrogation by providing a Copenhagen reflection on the EU as a global actor within the context of the Normative Power Approach (NPA). The chapter engages in a critical Copenhagen reflection, which means that it takes seriously the insights of critical social theory and the role of cultural hegemony. The chapter argues that the NPA must be understood within the context of two decades of Copenhagen critical social theory as this is where the approach was born and where I have worked intermittently since 2000. The chapter is organised as follows: first it will set out critical social theory and a Copenhagen reflection on the EU as a global actor. Second it engages with Franck and Lorenzoni’s chapter on postcolonialism in the NPA. Third it interacts with Jonasson’s chapter on the EU and the Mediterranean region through an examination of the EU’s consensual democracy support approach. Fourth the chapter contemplates Söderbaum’s analysis of the EU and Africa by comparing sustainable peacebuilding and social solidarity in development cooperation. The chapter concludes by reflecting on what the book says about the study of the EU as a global actor in a Nordic context. The chapter argues that the CERGU European Research Day and the contributing chapters demonstrate just how well developed the study of the EU as a global actor has become in the Nordic region over the past two decades since the Swedish and Finnish membership of the EU in 1995.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - European Union
KW - Global Actor
KW - Normative Power Approach
UR - https://www.gu.se/english/research/publication/?publicationId=246914
UR - https://cergu.gu.se/digitalAssets/1616/1616067_a-critical-copenhagen-reflection-on-the-european-union-as-a-global--manners.pdf
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789189608351
BT - The EU as a Global Actor
A2 - Franck, Anja
A2 - Söderbaum, Fredrik
PB - Centre for European Research (CERGU)
CY - Gothenburg
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