The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia
It is commonplace that the European Union (EU) attempts to diffuse human rights and the other ‘essential elements’ to its external partners. It is also commonly known that these attempts frequently face accusations of inconsistency and double standards from without as well as within the EU. The aim...
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| description | It is commonplace that the European Union (EU) attempts to diffuse human rights and the other ‘essential elements’ to its external partners. It is also commonly known that these attempts frequently face accusations of inconsistency and double standards from without as well as within the EU. The aim of this article is to assess why the EU has readily promoted norms and values in some instances and not in others through the examination of the EU as an actor in the case of transboundary and newly emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia. This article suggests that the EU has displayed a demand-oriented and issue-specific shift in its strategy to effectively diffuse norms. This is not a capitulation of norms and values on the part of the EU. Rather, it is the re-strategisation of its normative identity in its external relations to match the domestic and international realities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b39adf9748c4e95aacf4aeb3e04beea2022-12-22T01:34:35ZengUACESJournal of Contemporary European Research1815-347X2014-05-01102221235The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast AsiaNaila Maier-Knapp0University of CambridgeIt is commonplace that the European Union (EU) attempts to diffuse human rights and the other ‘essential elements’ to its external partners. It is also commonly known that these attempts frequently face accusations of inconsistency and double standards from without as well as within the EU. The aim of this article is to assess why the EU has readily promoted norms and values in some instances and not in others through the examination of the EU as an actor in the case of transboundary and newly emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia. This article suggests that the EU has displayed a demand-oriented and issue-specific shift in its strategy to effectively diffuse norms. This is not a capitulation of norms and values on the part of the EU. Rather, it is the re-strategisation of its normative identity in its external relations to match the domestic and international realities.http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/583/463ASEANNormative actorNorm diffusionTransboundary challengesEU-ASEAN relationship |
| spellingShingle | Naila Maier-Knapp The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia Journal of Contemporary European Research ASEAN Normative actor Norm diffusion Transboundary challenges EU-ASEAN relationship |
| title | The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia |
| title_full | The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia |
| title_fullStr | The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia |
| title_short | The European Union as a Normative Actor and its External Relations with Southeast Asia |
| title_sort | european union as a normative actor and its external relations with southeast asia |
| topic | ASEAN Normative actor Norm diffusion Transboundary challenges EU-ASEAN relationship |
| url | http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/583/463 |
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