Conflicting Narratives? Geopolitical and Normative Power Narratives in the EU Eastern Partnership

• Authors: Crombois Jean F.
• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

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‑vis its Eastern Partners. The second narrative, i.e. the geopolitical one, emphasizes the 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.

Keywords

EN

European Union; Eastern Partnership; geopolitics; normative power

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 49
• Pages: 109-125

Contributors

author

Crombois Jean F.

Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.49.07