Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Gerasimos Tsouparas

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Gerasimos Tsouparas
The Limits of Norm Promotion: The EU in Egypt and Israel/Palestine
April 1, 2013
Policy implications aside, assessing the EU’s involvement in the Mediterranean region necessitates a reconsideration of the impact and limits of the so-called ‘normative power’ upon which its approach has been based, implicitly or explicitly. This paper does so by examining the EU’s engagement with Egypt and the Israel-Palestine conflict; it sets out to challenge the notion that EU-style normative power alone is well-suited to promote democracy and regional cooperation, particularly in regions with diverging dynamics where the promotion of EU-associated norms may stumble upon European trade- and diplomacy-related interests. In this sense, it aims to enrich and inform the debates on ‘normative power Europe’ and Euro-Mediterranean relations.

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