Journal of European Public Policy · 2006 · 208 citations · 34 references
Social SciencesInternational RelationsPolitical ScienceInternational OrganizationsInternational Political TheoryPolitical SociologyEuropean Foreign PolicyEuropean IntegrationEuropean LawEuropean PoliticsEuropean Union StudiesHumanitarian GovernanceNormative Foreign PolicyNormative Power Europe
The EU is increasingly viewed as a humanitarian, normative, civilian, and civilizing power, yet a robust theoretical framework to assess this claim remains underdeveloped. The study aims to establish a better theoretical foundation for assessing the EU’s humanitarian dimension by integrating legal, normative, and sociological perspectives. The authors employ legal and normative theory alongside sociological insights into modern politics to analyze the EU’s humanitarian dimension.
Abstract The argument that the EU is a humanitarian – normative, civilian, civilizing – power has gained considerable attention. Echoing discussions about recent developments in the international system towards a post-Westphalian order, the EU's actual foreign policy is in many ways a test case for such developments. However, much remains to be done in terms of finding a satisfactory theoretical basis from which to examine this argument. The study of the putative humanitarian dimension to the EU's foreign policy may benefit from legal and normative theory and from sociological insights into modern politics. On this basis we may find a better starting point for examining whether the EU's humanitarian dimension is comprehensible as well as justifiable.
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Gianfranco Poggi · Sociology · 1969 · 6.9K citations