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Normative power as hegemony
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In this article, the authors identify four key problems in the debate about normative power Europe that may be fruitfully tackled when linking it to the concept of hegemony, including the question about whether EU foreign and external policy is driven by norms or interests, the problem of inconsistent behaviour as a result of competing and contested norms, the question of the role of state and non-state actors, and problematic standing of normative power as an academic engagement, in particular in regard to whether the theory is of primarily explanatory, descriptive or normative value.Abstract:
This article identifies four key problems in the debate about normative power Europe that may be fruitfully tackled when linking it to the concept of hegemony: the debate about whether EU foreign and external policy is driven by norms or interests; the problem of inconsistent behaviour as a result of competing and contested norms; the question of the role of state and non-state actors in EU foreign and external policy; and the problematic standing of normative power as an academic engagement, in particular in regard to whether the theory is of primarily explanatory, descriptive or normative value. The author suggests that the concept of hegemony may address these problems. First, it combines norms and interests, thus transcending the divide that has resulted in endless debates about the EU’s standing as a normative power. Second, hegemony does not start from a pre-given set of norms with fixed meanings, but rather puts the struggles about these norms at centre stage, thus seeing inconsistencies not as und...read more
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What Is a Strategy
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Absolute Voluntarism: Critique of a Post-Marxist Concept of Hegemony@@@Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
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Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
Chantal Mouffe,Ernesto Laclau +1 more
TL;DR: The authors traces the genealogy of the present crisis in left-wing thought, from stifling of democracy under Marxist-Lenninism and Stalinism to the contemporary emergence of new forms of struggle and reexamines the idea of hegemony, from the formation of the idea in the writings of Lenin and Gramsci, to the expanded and discursive ideas of Foucault to posit a claim for the new possibilities of a radical democracy.
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Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors 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 European Union as a "normative power Europe".
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The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
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