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 …

How do political authorities build support for themselves and their rule? Doing so is key to
accruing power, but it can be a complicated affair. The European Union, as a novel political …

Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and
international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But what kinds of models of …

Introduced by Ian Manners in an article published in 2002, the idea of 'normative power
Europe'has been very widely debated by scholars in the fields of European studies and …

Written by leading experts in the field, this volume identifies European collective preferences
and analyses to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are …

In spring 1994 I first heard Richard Whitman ask the question,'what is the international
identity of the European Union?'. The end of the Cold War, the Treaty on European Union …

This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union.
Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on …

The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits
a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the sharing …

The European and the universal process has always been closely intertwined and for more
than half a century this special relationship has been characterised by very important …

Abstract 'Strategic partnership'is a frequently used term in the vocabulary of international
politics. However, there is a lack of theoretical problematization of the nature and meaning of …