Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership

Since its inception, the EU’s Eastern Partnership has given rise to two seemingly conflicting narratives. The first one, the normative power narrative emphasizes the use of norms expansion as the main objectives of the European Union vis‑a‑vis its Eastern Partners. The second narrative, i.e. the ge...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:eb4236ae96a941719a85af7637201bc92021-11-27T13:06:46ZConflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.49.071733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/eb4236ae96a941719a85af7637201bc92021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/1638https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 Since its inception, the EU’s Eastern Partnership has given rise to two seemingly conflicting narratives. The first one, the normative power narrative emphasizes the use of norms expansion as the main objectives of the European Union vis‑a‑vis its Eastern Partners. The second narrative, i.e. the geopolitical one, emphasizes the need for the EU to develop a geopolitical orientation in its relations with its Eastern neighbours based on interests rather than values. This paper will look at these two narratives, how they originated and how they developed in the EU discourses related to the making of EU foreign policy and more particularly as far as the EU’s Eastern Partnership is concerned. Jean F. CromboisKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleEuropean UnionEastern Partnershipgeopoliticsnormative powerLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 14, Iss 4(49) (2021)
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language EN
PL
topic European Union
Eastern Partnership
geopolitics
normative power
Law
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Political science
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spellingShingle European Union
Eastern Partnership
geopolitics
normative power
Law
K
Political science
J
Jean F. Crombois
Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
description Since its inception, the EU’s Eastern Partnership has given rise to two seemingly conflicting narratives. The first one, the normative power narrative emphasizes the use of norms expansion as the main objectives of the European Union vis‑a‑vis its Eastern Partners. The second narrative, i.e. the geopolitical one, emphasizes the need for the EU to develop a geopolitical orientation in its relations with its Eastern neighbours based on interests rather than values. This paper will look at these two narratives, how they originated and how they developed in the EU discourses related to the making of EU foreign policy and more particularly as far as the EU’s Eastern Partnership is concerned.
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title Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
title_short Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
title_full Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
title_fullStr Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
title_full_unstemmed Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership
title_sort conflicting narratives? geopolitical and normative power narratives in the eu eastern partnership
publisher Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing
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