Title: Normative Power and the EU’s Search for Meaning
Abstract: Alongside national strategies and inter-institutional rivalries, a third function of EU foreign policy is its site as an occasion for EU identity building. As noted in the Introduction, EU foreign policy can be thought of as the next phase of European integration. One reason for this is that it provides the EU with the possibility of forging for itself a new identity through its international role. This was already in evidence with the EU’s expansion across Eastern Europe, with some hoping that Turkey’s membership of the EU could breathe new life into the flagging integration project (Patten, 2005). Beyond enlargement, foreign and security policy serves the same function of providing the EU with a much needed onto-logical basis; an answer, in short, to the eternal question of what is the EU and what exactly is it for?
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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