CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Gasimzade, Ilhama |
|---|---|
| Title | EU Role Conceptions in the Eastern Partnership Region: Normative Power Europe? |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the European Union’s role in the security of the Eastern Partnership region focusing on regional conflicts. Drawing on role theory, EU role conceptions are analyzed across three dimensions of “Normative Power Europe” – normative intent, normative process and EU capability – between 2003 and 2020. Looking at strategic documents on security, the ENP and the EaP, the thesis finds that EU role conceptions do not reflect “Normative Power Europe” and carry some characteristics of the concepts of “empire” and hegemony”. The EU’s prioritization of its security interests, as well as inconsistency and limited inclusiveness in the EU approach to conflicts in the EaP region, undermines its normative power. The results demonstrate that the EU has gone from seeing itself as a Normative Power due to its increasing preference for military instruments and strategic autonomy. |
| Supervisor | Batory, Agnes |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/gasimzade_ilhama.pdf |
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