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The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy

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  • Hiski Haukkala

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This article analyses the European Union's European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of the European Union as an actor employing normative power in international politics. The European Neighbourhood Policy can be seen as a substitute for the Union's enlargement that has previously been the main vehicle for the Union's normative power in Europe. By relinquishing enlargement, the EU is in danger of losing its capacity for effectively stabilising its nearest neighbours as well as losing its legitimacy and justification in their eyes. The article discusses whether the European Neighbourhood Policy can be seen as a fruitful way out of the Union's present conundrum. It concludes that at least in its present form the Neighbourhood Policy is far from a panacea. It suffers from a lack of legitimacy as a result of its inability to answer the neighbours' calls for full political and institutional belonging in Europe.

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  • Hiski Haukkala, 2008. "The European Union as a Regional Normative Hegemon: The Case of European Neighbourhood Policy," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(9), pages 1601-1622.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:60:y:2008:i:9:p:1601-1622
    DOI: 10.1080/09668130802362342
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    2. Senem Aydın‐Düzgit & Gergana Noutcheva, 2022. "External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers?," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(6), pages 1815-1831, November.
    3. Wenwen Shen, 2015. "Looking through rose-tinted glasses? The value and deficiency of using NPE as an analytical tool in the case of China," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 13(3), pages 309-322, September.
    4. Duncan Leitch, 2019. "Leaving like an Englishman: Assisting institutional reform in post‐communist Ukraine," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 37(1), pages 111-128, January.
    5. Serena Giusti, 2020. "The European Union Global Strategy and the EU's Maieutic Role," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(6), pages 1452-1468, November.

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