This dissertation will evaluate the EU’s civilian power, military power and normative power in terms of its foreign policy. It will analyse what academic work exists regarding these types of power. It will identify and critique challenges to the credibility of each type of power. It will also look at Operation Artemis and Operation Atalanta as case studies in order to further demonstrate how the EU exercises these types of power. This dissertation will acknowledge the substantial developments in the EU’s military power since the advent of the European Security and Defence Policy and its considerable references to normative values in treaties and political discourse. However, the EU’s civilian power, in which it seeks cooperation, values multilateralism, and exists as a global economic power, remains the most appropriate label for the EU as a global actor.

National foreign policies and European political cooperation

An analysis of civilian, military and normative power in EU foreign policy.

Dr. Judith Reppy, Committee Chair
Dr. Jonathan Kirshner, Committee Member
Dr. Thomas Christensen, Committee Member
Dr. Matthew Evangelista, Proxy/Reader

/pdf/the-politics-of-identity-and-interest-in-european-defense-52b84yw9zt.pdf

The Politics of Identity and Interest in European Defense Industrial Collaboration

Routledge Advances in European Politics

The past decade has seen an explosion of scholarly work on the European Community (EC)’s attempts to develop an international role during the ‘long 1970s’. This is hardly surprising: historians tend to follow the opening of the archives, and now is the best moment to examine primary sources from the period. There are, however, two further reasons for this growing interest in European integration during the 1970s. Firstly, writing in the aftermath of the crisis in relations between the United States and Europe provoked by the US's global war on terrorism and at the height of the European financial crisis, many scholars – historians and political scientists alike – have looked back at the crisis of the 1970s, searching for precedents, similarities and differences. Secondly, thanks to the number of studies now available, the decade is widely recognised as a pivotal period of global transformation – a period in which new global dynamics produced radical change for Europe and for the international system as a whole. In many ways, this decade represented a crisis of modernity that saw the emergence of new actors and processes. Cold War categories became too rigid to usefully define – or even explain – an increasingly pluralistic world, in which new international actors, ranging from transnational grassroots movements to international institutions and regular international summits, began to play major roles. The oppressive but unambiguous Cold War order started to crumble, and a new one, characterised by ‘interdependence’ and ‘globalisation’, began to emerge. The effects of this transformation were particularly dramatic for Europe: it was in the seventies that Europe ‘entered a different world’.

National foreign policies and European political cooperation

Citations

An analysis of civilian, military and normative power in EU foreign policy.

The Politics of Identity and Interest in European Defense Industrial Collaboration

Routledge Advances in European Politics

The Search for a European Identity in the Long 1970s: External Relations and Institutional Evolution in the European Community

European political co‐operation and member state diplomatic missions in third countries — findings from a case‐study of South Africa

Related Papers (5)

The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy

European Political Cooperation

CHAPTER ONE – European Political Cooperation: a new approach to European foreign policy

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation

European Political Cooperation in the 1980s :: a common foreign policy for Western Europe?