The European Union's foreign policy and its international role are increasingly being contested both globally and at home. At the global level, a growing number of states are now challenging the Western-led liberal order defended by the EU. Large as well as smaller states are vying for more leeway to act out their own communitarian principles on and approaches to sovereignty, security and economic development. At the European level, a similar battle has begun over principles, values and institutions. The most vocal critics have been anti-globalization movements, developmental NGOs, and populist political parties at both extremes of the left-right political spectrum. This book, based on ten case studies, explores some of the most important current challenges to EU foreign policy norms, whether at the global, glocal or intra-EU level. The case studies cover contestation of the EU's fundamental norms, organizing principles and standardized procedures in relation to the abolition of the death penalty, climate, Responsibility to Protect, peacebuilding, natural resource governance, the International Criminal Court, lethal autonomous weapons systems, trade, the security-development nexus and the use of consensus on foreign policy matters in the European Parliament. The book also theorizes the current norm contestation in terms of the extent to, and conditions under which, the EU foreign policy is being put to the test.
Author(s): Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Martijn Vlaskamp, Esther Barbé
Series: Norm Research In International Relations
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 218
Tags: Foreign Policy, European Union
Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
EU Foreign Policy and Norm Contestation in an Eroding Western and Intra-EU Liberal Order (Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Martijn C. Vlaskamp, Esther Barbé)....Pages 1-15
The EU and Controlling the Use of the Death Penalty: An Organising Principle for Which Fundamental Norm? (Robert Kissack)....Pages 17-33
Common but Differentiated Responsibility in International Climate Negotiations: The EU and Its Contesters (Franziska Petri, Katja Biedenkopf)....Pages 35-54
China Contestation of the EU’s Promotion of the Responsibility to Protect: Between Solidarists and Sovereignists (Lluc López i Vidal)....Pages 55-74
India’s ‘Silent Contestation’ of the EU’s Perspective on Local Ownership (Lara Klossek)....Pages 75-93
Good Natural Resource Governance: How Does the EU Deal with the Contestation of Transparency Standards? (Martijn C. Vlaskamp)....Pages 95-112
The European Union and the International Criminal Court: Contested Abroad, Consensual at Home? (Gemma Collantes-Celador, Oriol Costa)....Pages 113-131
The European Union and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: United in Diversity? (Esther Barbé, Diego Badell)....Pages 133-152
Norm Contestation in Modern Trade Agreements: Was the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership a “One-off”? (Leif Johan Eliasson, Patricia Garcia-Duran)....Pages 153-171
Military Capacity Building as EU’s New Security and Development Strategy: The New Rules for Peace Promotion? (Marta Iñiguez de Heredia)....Pages 173-189
When Contestation Is the Norm: The Position of Populist Parties in the European Parliament Towards Conflicts in Europe’s Neighbourhood (Milan van Berlo, Michal Natorski)....Pages 191-211
