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Asia-Europe dialogue on norms: revisiting the role of norm-receivers in the conceptualisation of the ‘normative power Europe’ / Chaban, Natalia; Masselot, Annick ; Vadura, Katharine

Chaban, Natalia	Article
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This special issue sets out to explore the responses of norm-receivers to EU export of norms and values. The main focus of this special issue is on the Asian recipients of EU norms. The leading theoretical explanations—used by all contributors to this Issue— are from the revisited analytical framework of ‘Normative Power Europe’ (NPE). NPE is a popular conceptual paradigm that has informed debate about the EU since the early 2000s. Introduced in the seminal work by Ian Manners (2002), it remains a useful and intellectually attractive model to understand the EU and its actions both internally and externally. Its appeal lies in its emphasis on ideas; its open, eclectic and critical nature; and its focus on explanations of power beyond state-centred models

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Europe ; Asia ; Normative Power Europe ; Asia-Europe Dialogue

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EU as ‘norm entrepreneur’ in the Asian region: exploring the digital diplomacy aspect of the human rights toolbox / Vadura, Katharine

Vadura, Katharine	Article
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The European Union (EU) is an entity in re-evolution in relation to the development of its human rights strategy. This paper will examine the EU’s human rights advocacy in external relations in the context of normative power Europe (NPE), particularly in relation to the notion of the EU becoming a ‘norm entrepreneur’ with its revised human rights ‘toolbox’. The promotion and protection of human rights is cited as being at the core of European values, together with democracy and the rule of law, having both an internal and external focus in rights promotion and protection. This paper endeavours to present an analysis of the EU as norm entrepreneur in the context of human rights advocate. In so doing, it will examine the question of EU visibility in terms of human rights promotion. In its external action, the EU has a number of ‘tools’ in its human rights toolbox. By applying a rights inclusion analysis to the tool of digital diplomacy in an Asian context, the question of EU as norm entrepreneur is seen to be driven by strategic interests and partnerships. This paper argues that the EU is an ‘inadvertent’ norm entrepreneur through its programmatic pursuit of being an entrepreneur for social good in its external action rather than norm diffusion as experienced in a European context.

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EU ; Asian Region ; Digital Diplomacy ; Norm Entrepreneur ; Human Rights Toolbox

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