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Title Aid by Trade. The EU as a Normative Power in the Economic Partnership Agreement with Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe
Full text http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/11083
Date 2013
Author(s) Lindhagen, Louise Willumsen
Contributor(s) Dyrhauge, Helene
Abstract The European Union (EU) is characterised as a normative power in world politics. Based on this assumption, the aim of the project is to investigate which role regionalism has in relation to the EU's normative power agenda. This primary objective is elucidated by a subordinated research question on how the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zimbabwe contributes to the normative power agenda. By using the vocabulary of new regionalism, the objectives are researched through the tripartite method, which analyses the virtue, deontological and consequentialist ethics of the Interim Agreement. It is concluded that the Interim Agreement presents the EU as a normative power. However, the EU does not act normatively, but is normative by promoting inter- and intra-regionalism. Thereby, the EU alters the prescription of normal in world politics. Finally, it is proposed that regionalism should be a principle of the normative agenda.
Subject(s) Normative Power; European Union; Trade Relations; EU-Africa; New Regionalism
Language en
Type of publication Thesis; Eu-studies - not master thesis
Repository Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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