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".

Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?

1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l

Taking Rights Seriously

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’.

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Indicators are rapidly multiplying as tools for assessing and promoting a variety of social justice and reform strategies around the world. There are indicators of rule of law, indicators of violence against women, and indicators of economic development, among many others. Indicators are widely used at the national level and are increasingly important in global governance. There are increasing demands for “evidence-based” funding for nongovernmental organizations and for the results of civil society organizations to be quantifiable and measurable. The reliance on simplified numerical representations of complex phenomena began in strategies of national governance and economic analysis and has recently migrated to the regulation of nongovernmental organizations and human rights. The turn to indicators in the field of global governance introduces a new form of knowledge production with implications for relations of power between rich and poor nations and between governments and civil society. The deployment ...

Measuring the World

The article focuses on the politicization of international authority as a thus far little understood development in world politics. We first define the concept and show that there is an empirical trend towards politicization of international institutions. We then argue that the increasing authority of international institutions has led to their politicization and we relate this hypothesis to alternative explanations. The validity of the authority–politicization nexus is illustrated by the rise of international authority in parallel to politicization. We go on to distinguish different policy functions such as rule definition, monitoring, interpretation, and enforcement in order to show that especially those international institutions with a high level of authority meet with strong contestation of their competencies. We conclude the article by exploring various avenues for future politicization research.

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International authority and its politicization

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Rechtsgeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Konturierung des europäischen Verwaltungsrechts

Prispevek utemeljuje ustavnopravni pristop k proucevanju prava Evropske unije. Ob tem daje avtor posebni pomen temeljnim nacelom ustavnega reda EU in pojasnjuje njihove razsežnosti, temelje ter naloge. Pravna nacela imajo pomembno vlogo pri urejanju pravnega gradiva v smiselno celoto. Taksno urejanje avtor poimenuje kot pravnodogmaticni konstruktivizem. Pri uporabi prava služijo nacela kot argumentacijske figure. Z njihovo pomocjo se ohranja in razvija pravna podstat. Razprava pojasni tudi povezovalne vidike nacel ter njihov ustavnopravni znacaj, ponazori njihov posebni pomen za utemeljitev enotnosti prava Unije z ozirom na njegovo razdrobljenost ter delitev njegovih temeljev na dve pogodbi.

Armin von Bogdandy

Papers

Rechtsgeschichtliche Überlegungen zur Konturierung des europäischen Verwaltungsrechts

Temeljna načela prava Unije. Ustavno-teoretični in dogmatični oris

Die vertikale Kompetenzordnung im Entwurf des Verfassungsvertrags

Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Europa : Institutionen

Il Diritto Costituzionale nel Diritto Pubblico Europeo. L'Esempio della Rete Istituzionalizzata della Giustizia Costituzionale