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Akterstvo i moć Evropske unije
Actorness And Power Of The European Union

Author(s): Marko Kovačević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: European Union; soft power; hard power; normative pow­er; global actor; theories; international relations; neorealism; neoli-beralism; constructivism.

Summary/Abstract: By applying the realist, liberal and constructivist approaches to In­ternational Relations, in the light of the position the European Union holds in world politics, we are going to answer the question whether the aforementioned theoretical approaches see (do not see) a global actorness for the European Union. Each of the approaches answers the question of the EU’s own manifestation of its actor capacity—by means of using the concepts of the hard, the soft, and the normative power in the analysis. This shall be a way to investigating the degree of EU’s (global) actorness, as well as to testing its actorness through the actual implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Pol­icy via the three aforementioned concepts of power.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 145-163
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian