The European Union as a normative Foreign Policy Actor
The European Union as a normative Foreign Policy Actor

Author(s): Natalie Tocci, Hakim Darbouche , Michael Emerson, Sandra Fernandes, Ruth Hanau-Santini, Gergana Noutcheva, Clara Portela
Subject(s): International Law, Political history, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Political behavior, Politics and law
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: European Union; Normative foreign policy; Global Partners; Political behaviour;
Summary/Abstract: The opening chapter set out the conceptual framework for exploring the question of Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partners. This chapter constitutes one of several case studies applying this framework to the behaviour of the European Union, whereas the others to follow concern China, India, Russia and the United States. A normative foreign policy is rigorously defined as one that is normative according to the goals set, the means employed and the results obtained. Each of these studies exploreseight actual case examples of foreign policy behaviour, selected in order to illustrate four alternative paradigms of foreign policy behaviour – the normative, the realpolitik, the imperialistic and the status quo. For each of these four paradigms,there are two examples of EU foreign policy, one demonstrating intended consequences and the other, unintended effects.

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