| ID | 120738 |
| Title Proper | Normative power Europe meets economic liberalism |
| Other Title Information | complicating cosmopolitanism inside/outside the EU |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Parker, Owen ; Rosamond, Ben |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article offers a reading of 'normative power Europe' (NPE) suggesting that the concept has been used for two distinct purposes: as a distinctive ontological characterisation of the EU, on the one hand, and as a critical approach to the study of the EU and its external projection, on the other. These positions are labelled 'NPE ontological reality' (NPE-OR) and 'NPE critical ontology' (NPE-CO), respectively, and this article sets out to show how they might work together in practice, even if they are incommensurable in theory. It is argued that NPE's ethico-political value resides in the extent that it embodies an ontologically plural reality, never entirely defined. By drawing attention to a blind-spot in the NPE position - the constitutive importance of economic liberalism ('market cosmopolitanism') to the EU's post-Westphalian character - attention is drawn to the normative basis of market cosmopolitanism and its connections to NPE-OR are described. It is argued that, from an NPE-CO perspective, we should exercise caution in celebrating NPE-OR as post-Westphalian reality to the extent that it is rooted in a market cosmopolitics. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.2; Jun 2013: p.229-246 |
| Journal Source | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.2; Jun 2013: p.229-246 |
| Key Words | Cosmopolitanism ; Economic Liberalism ; European Union ; Normative Power |