CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Strausz, Erzsébet |
|---|---|
| Title | THEORIZING THE TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT OF THE EU'S FOREIGN POLICY ROLE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL |
| Summary | The present thesis focuses on academic attempts to theorize the EU’s transformative foreign policy role and examines the various rhetoric and narrative patterns emerging from such theorizing through the analysis of a representative sample of academic contributions belonging to the Normative Power Europe (NPE) and Ethical Power Europe (EPE) scholarships. The main argument of this thesis is that the normative content of NPE/EPE accounts contribute to the legitimization of the EU’s transformative activity in its external relations and consequently, to the silencing of new local agencies in the European periphery by stripping them of their autonomous “political” capacity. By means of a critical discourse analysis, it is showed how the normative content of NPE/EPE contributions are being constructed and operated discursively. This is achieved (1) by problematizing the images of law and ethics as unfolding from these texts according to the visions of “normality” they contain and (2) by setting them against alternative readings, which are expected to reveal what practices are naturalized by these specific images of normality. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/strausz_erzsebet.pdf |
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