Conflicting Narratives?
Conflicting Narratives?

Geopolitical and Normati ve Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership

Summary/Abstract: Since its inception, the EU’s Eastern Partnership has given rise to two seemingly conflicting narratives. The first one, the normative power narrative emphasizes the use of norms expansion as the main objectives of the European Union vis‑à‑visits Eastern Partners. The second narrative, i.e. the geopolitical one, emphasizesthe need for the EU to develop a geopolitical orientation in its relations with its Eastern neighbours based on interests rather than values. This paper will look at these two narratives, how they originated and how they developed in the EU discourses related to the making of EU foreign policy and more particularly as far as the EU’s Eastern Partnership is concerned.

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