Normative Power in EU’s Democracy Promotion Policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Assessment from Zimbabwean and Ivory Coast Cases
Abstract
This paper seeks to explore the limits of the Normative Power Europe (NPE)’s concept from theoretical and empirical perspectives by using Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast as test case studies. In doing so, it will first theorize the concept of NPE by analyzing the liberal understandings and neorealist critiques of the concept, then it will briefly give an overview of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) framework and finally it will critically examine the EU’s democracy promotion aactivities in both countries from the NPE perspective. Our main argument is that though normative
emphasis finds its place in the CPA Framework, the EU’s inconsistent and controversial attitude
towards the political situation in Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast, have significantly limited conceptions
of the EU as a normative
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Political Science
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
March 15, 2017
Submission Date
March 15, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Year 2017 Volume: 5 Number: 1