The EU and Multidimensional Forms of Power: Critical Moments and Change in Actorness and Power |
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Authors: | Tamara Hoch Jovanovic |
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Affiliation: | External Lecturer, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark |
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Abstract: | This article introduces a framework for studying the European Union (EU) as power by focusing on what EU does rather than what EU is. Conceptualizing EU as a regional international society, EU is constituted along multidimensional lines. While a code of conduct limits internal and external practices, critical moments are important junctures for practitioners to reinterpret norms and rules, leading to the reproduction of EU as power. The practice of minority rights illustrates how a lack of intersubjectivity limits the EU’s power. It is first through practitioners’ engagement with norms and rules that new practices are established. |
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Keywords: | EU actorness internal and external practices minority rights regional international society |
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