Russian Images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan
In: Foreign policy analysis, S. orw055
ISSN: 1743-8594
In: Foreign policy analysis, S. orw055
ISSN: 1743-8594
In: Asian security, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 66-81
ISSN: 1555-2764
In: Chaban , N , Miskimmon , A & O'Loughlin , B 2017 , ' The EU's Peace and Security Narrative: Views from EU Strategic Partners in Asia ' , Journal of Common Market Studies , vol. 55 , no. 6 , pp. 1273-1289 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12569
The EU has consistently struggled to forge a foreign policy narrative which promotes internal cohesion and supports the EU's efforts to exert international influence. The 2016 EU Global Strategy is the latest iteration of collective efforts to tie strategy and purpose to the EU's coherent identity in the world. This study compares the EU's strategic partners of peace and security with narratives about the EU held in the EU's strategic partners in Asia. Whilst we find reasonable coherence in the EU's projection of the international system and its role in it, its identity as an actor, and its response to policy issues on the ground, views from Asia largely contest these claims. This article employs a strategic narrative approach to conceptualize and empirically trace how the formation, projection and reception of EU narratives are part of broader circuits of communication through which EU might be recognized, legitimized and achieve influence.
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In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 55, Heft 6, S. 1273-1289
ISSN: 1468-5965
AbstractThe EU has consistently struggled to forge a foreign policy narrative which promotes internal cohesion and supports the EU's efforts to exert international influence. The 2016 EU Global Strategy is the latest iteration of collective efforts to tie strategy and purpose to the EU's coherent identity in the world. This study compares the EU's strategic partners of peace and security with narratives about the EU held in the EU's strategic partners in Asia. Whilst we find reasonable coherence in the EU's projection of the international system and its role in it, its identity as an actor, and its response to policy issues on the ground, views from Asia largely contest these claims. This article employs a strategic narrative approach to conceptualize and empirically trace how the formation, projection and reception of EU narratives are part of broader circuits of communication through which EU might be recognized, legitimized and achieve influence.
In: Comparative European politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 1-22
ISSN: 1740-388X
In: Asian security, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 1-7
ISSN: 1555-2764
The file associated with this record is under a 12-month embargo from publication in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The full text may be available through the publisher links provided above. ; This article approaches the subject of the global recognition of the term 'Normative Power Europe' in external energy governance by engaging with the concept of strategic narratives. The article considers reactions to the European Union (EU) as a normative energy actor within a tripartite scheme of strategic narrative formation, projection and reception. The definition of a narrative suggests the presence of an actor, an action, a goal or intention, a scene and instrument. Those were identified for the emerging 'Sustainable Energy Europe' narrative and tested in one empirical case study: Twitter communications surrounding the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2013. In its method, our analysis is among the first to explore empirically the EU's social media communication efforts. Answering a call for richer methodologies, which view social media data not as 'quantitative data, rather qualitative data on a quantitative scale', our analysis uses an original methodology and codes the Twitter data using a nuanced qualitative framework. ; Peer-reviewed ; Post-print
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In: Comparative European politics: CEP
ISSN: 1472-4790
In: European foreign affairs review, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 493-516
ISSN: 1384-6299
World Affairs Online
In: European foreign affairs review, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 493-515
ISSN: 1875-8223
The debate surrounding the challenge of improving coherence in European Union (EU) foreign policy is ongoing. EU Delegations (EUDs), operating under the European External Action Service (EEAS) were recently established to provide a focal point for the EU in third countries, providing potential for improving EU coherence. Using the case study of the EUDs, this article adds to theorizations of EU coherence – defined as the absence of contradictions between policies and positions, and between words and deeds – through elaborating the notion of external engagement coherence. Questioning the assumption that improvement of EU foreign policy coherence leads to the improvement of its effectiveness, the article analyses perceptions of the EUDs in three EU strategic partners – China, Russia and India. The article finds that the creation of the EUDs does not necessarily mean more perceived coherence for the EU. In spite of this finding; EUDs were nevertheless often viewed as effective, especially in certain areas.
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 457-474
ISSN: 0010-8367
World Affairs Online
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 457-474
ISSN: 1460-3691
This paper examines a supranational actor, the European Union (EU), as a producer of energy diplomacy. This study uses a comparative analytical framework of state-centred vs. multistakeholder diplomacies to explore EU energy diplomacy towards the 'emerging' powers of Brazil, India, China and South Africa (BICS). It also elaborates the multistakeholder model by advocating the inclusion of a new element – a consumer of diplomatic actions – into its conceptualization. In this way the paper suggests a new synthesis of the concepts of multistakeholder and public diplomacies. Advancing the notion of energy diplomacy, our analysis suggests that this type of diplomacy goes beyond state actors as producers of diplomatic outcomes, and is no longer confined to the norms of security of supply and competitiveness; EU energy diplomacy is a complex blend of multistakeholder and state-centred diplomacies, participants (producers and consumers) and communication modes. This comprehensive approach to diplomacy – led in the EU's case by norms of sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply – is a response to the challenges of global governance, multipolarity and multinational cross-sectoral networks.
In: Importing EU Norms; United Nations University Series on Regionalism, S. 57-77
This paper explores China's relationship with the European Union by analysing their mediated interactions during the eurozone debt crisis. Despite different current economic situations, China and the EU are a key global alliance. In light of this, the paper considers visual framings of the eurozone crisis in China's leading business newspaper focusing on meanings and evaluations rendered by political cartoons. The analysis finds the Chinese business press depicts the EU as struggling to handle its own financial affairs and asks whether this is seen as an opportunity for China to seize the title of global economic 'heavyweight'. ; Peer-reviewed ; Publisher Version
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In: United Nations University Series on Regionalism, volume 8
This interdisciplinary work presents a conceptual framework and brings together constructivist and rationalist accounts of how EU norms are adopted, adapted, resisted or rejected. These chapters provide empirical cases and critical analysis of a rich variety of norm-takers from EU member states, European and non-European states, including the rejection of EU norms in Russia and Africa as well as adaptation of EU practices in Australia and New Zealand. Chapters on China, ASEAN and the Czech Republic demonstrate resistance to EU norm export. This volume probes differences in willingness to adopt or adapt norms between various actors in the recipient state and explores such questions as: How do norm-takers perceive of the EU and its norms? Is there a "normative fit" between EU norms and the local normative context? Similarly, how do EU norms impact recipients? interests and institutional arrangements? First, the authors map EU norm export strategies and approaches as they affect norm-takers. Second, the chapters recognize that norm adoption, adaption, resistance or rejection is a product of interaction and a relationship in which interdependence, asymmetry and power play a role. Third, we see that domestic circumstances within norm-takers condition the reception of norms. This book's focus on norm-takers highlights the reflexive nature of norm diffusion and that nature has implications for the EU itself as a norm exporter. Anyone with an interest in the research agenda on norm diffusion, normative power and the EU's normative dialogue with the world will find this book highly valuable, including scholars, policy makers and students of subjects including political science, European studies, international relations and international and EU law.