In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European
integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public …

While the identity of the European Union (EU) may have normative and/or other
characteristics, it is fundamentally a large single market with significant institutional features …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Focusing on the EU's relations with its periphery, this paper takes issue both with persistent
'normative'conceptions of the EU's international role in the European Studies literature and …

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's
foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and …

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 …

The European Union has been, is and always will be a normative power in world politics.
This is a strong claim with a critical aim: to promote normative approaches to the study of the …

The idea that the European Union (EU) should be conceptualized as a 'civilian','normative','
civilizing'or 'ethical'power in the international system has proved to be a fruitful avenue for …

This major new text provides a uniquely broad ranging introduction to, and assessment of
the contribution of, the whole range of theoretical approaches that have been applied to the …

This article analyses the European Union's European Neighbourhood Policy in the context
of the European Union as an actor employing normative power in international politics. The …