Normative’ power Europe
A Realist Critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7880698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrian Hyde-Price, Adrian Hyde‐price (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-234 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501760500451634 |
| OpenAlex | W2153110976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 187 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article offers a neorealist analysis and critique of liberal-idealist notions of the EU as a ‘normative’ or ‘civilian’ power. It argues that structural realist theory can shed considerable light on the emergence, development and nature of EU foreign and security policy co-operation. In contrast to liberal-idealism's reductionist and explicitly normative approach to the EU as an international actor, structural realism emphasizes the systemic determinants of EU foreign and security policy. It stresses the significance of bipolarity for the emergence of the EEC/EPC, and argues that the development of the ESDP is a function of systemic changes in the structural distribution of power. This has created a unipolar world and a multipolar Europe. In this context, the EU is used by its member states as a collective instrument for shaping its external milieu by a combination of hard and soft power
Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · European union · Foreign policy · Idealism · International relations · International relations theory · International trade · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Realism · Sociology · Soft power · European Union Policy and Governance · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy
Norms, self-interest and effectiveness
The European Union's Roles in International Politics
Balancing beyond the horizon? Explaining aggregate EU naval military capability changes in a neo-realist perspective
Comparative Grand Strategy
EU Defence Policy
Conflictual Rebordering
The adoption of global water norms in Central America
The US and EU Response to Tunisia’s Democratic Backsliding
A Vanishing Normative Power? The Changing Dynamics of EU Arms Exports
Understanding Greece’s policy in the European Defence Agency
North Africa and the Making of Europe
Comparing Chinese and EU trade agreement strategies
Normative Power Europe through trade
Performing Power
Balancing Rights, Interests and Values
Onwards and …eastwards? EU-Azerbaijan relations as an example of crisis-driven agenda-setting within the framework of the European neighbourhood policy
Geoeconomic Statecraft and Normative Power
The Eurasian Logic of Ostpolitik
The power of the European Union
Absent Europe
Addressing Human Rights in the Court of Justice of the Andean Community and the Tribunal of the Southern African Development Community
European defence co‐operation
Europe as a Normative Power in the Indo-Pacific
The EU and the Arctic
Great Expectations
The legitimacy of European Union foreign policy
The EU’s comprehensive approach as an alternative strategic framework for a security provider
Ukraine crisis and crisis of Europe (translated by N.K. Rozhanovskaya)
Does the EU Have Moral Authority? A Communicative Action Perspective on Sanctions
Coherence at Last? Transatlantic Cooperation in Response to the Geostrategic Challenge of China
Imperial power Europe? The EU’s relations with the ACP countries
Normative policy coherence for development and policy networks
Staying safe by being good? The EU's normative decline as a security actor in the Middle East
The EU’s evolving leadership role in an age of geopolitics
Navigating ideals and interests
Europe and the Middle East
EU og regional sikkerhet – Integrasjon, sikkerhet og assosierte ikke‐medlemmer
From Idealism to Realism? EU Preferential Trade Agreement Policy
Conflicted Normative Power Europe
EU Soft Power and the Capability-Expectations Gap
The European Union as a Normative Power and Conflict Transformation in Moldova
Identity beyond othering
The Power of the European Union
Sino-Western relations, political values, and the Human Rights Council
European Foreign and Security Policy in the Making
Examining EU action and actorness through external perceptions
All for One? EU Member States and the Union's Common Policy Towards the Russian Federation
The Bilateral Relations of the Benelux Countries with Russia
From norms to security in Lithuania’s Belarus policy after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine
The normative power of Europe? Indonesian perspective of the EU
A geopolitical turn to EU enlargement, or another postponement? An introduction
Realist-normative power Europe? Explaining EU policies toward Lebanon from an IR perspective
Coordinative Europeanization and Russia’s war of aggression
Russia and EU cooperation in energy policy – Sending and receiving messages
The EU's civilian/power dilemma
Aid sanctions and political conditionality
Moral power’ as objectification of the ‘civilian’/‘normative’ ‘EUlogy’
Gender and race in the European security strategy
The EU’s realist power
Into the ‘Heart of Darkness’ — EU's civilising mission in the DR Congo
Ambiguous power? A relational approach to how the EU exercises power in Morocco and Tunisia
From the European Security Strategy to the EU Global Strategy
Bringing Policy-Making Structure Back In
Rethinking Europe’s external relations in an age of global turmoil
Between soft power, neo-Westphalianism and transnationalism
Charting the EU–national strategic constellation
The European Union's Asia strategies
Germany and Nord Stream 2
Between ‘soft power’ and a hard place
Institutional innovation of EU’s foreign and security policy
Enlargement as high politics
Why, how and to whom is the European Union signalling in the Indo-Pacific? Understanding the European Union’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific in the epicentre of multipolar competition
A Dialogue of the Deaf? Conflicting Discourses over the EU and Services Liberalisation in the WTO
Framing and reframing the EU’s engagement with the Mediterranean
Europeanization as a Democratization Tool? The Case of Morocco
Normative Power Europe and the Moral Economy of Africa–EU Ties
Values, rights, and changing interests
A League of their Own
The Politics of NGOs, Human Rights and the Arab-Israel Conflict
Why Climate? The Drivers of the European Union’s Climate Governance in its Post-Soviet East European Neighbors
Ukraine’s Fault Lines
Soft power with a hard edge
Everything Is Dangerous
Stability First, Development Second, Democracy Third
The EU’s Tripartite Approach Towards Belarus and the Limits of Resilience
The European Union, Russia and the Post-Soviet Space
The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon
Russian Challenge to the EU’s Normative Power
The EU, Russia and the Manichean Trap
Anglo-American Relations and Soft Power
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU
Institutional Governance of European Neighbourhood Policy in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Normal Power Europe
New intergovernmentalism meets EU sanctions policy
Virtue or Vice? The Coherence of the EU’s External Policies
Knowledge power Europe
Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy
EU–Mena Relations from the Barcelona Process to the Arab Uprisings
The Changing Nature of International Institutions in Europe
Still Rooted in Maastricht
Triumph of the lack of will
Discord and Collaboration
Of paradise and power
Essence of Decision
New Thinking in International Relations Theory
The halse Promise of International Institutions
Man, the State, and War
Mearsheimer's World—Offensive Realism and the Struggle for Security
Command of the Commons
Historical Reality vs. Neo-Realist Theory
Bandwagoning for Profit
Structural Realism after the Cold War
Bismarck
Europe's American Pacifier
A World Restored
Normative Power Europe
Civilian Power Europe
Theory of international politics
Chain gangs and passed bucks
Do Weak States Bandwagon
The richness of the tradition of political realism
| Unique citing works | 187 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,74 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 186 |