AVRUPA BİRLİĞİ NORMATİF BİR GÜÇ MÜDÜR? AVRO BÖLGESİ KRİZİNİN ARDINDAN BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

Abstract

Bu makale Avrupa Birliği’nin uluslararası sistemde bir ‘normatif güç’ olarak konumlandığı iddiasını Avro Bölgesi krizi bağlamında yeniden değerlendirmektedir. Bu amaçla çalışmada, krizdeki Avro Bölgesi üyelerine yönelik olarak AB ve IMF tarafından yürütülen finansal yardım ve kurtarma programları sistematik olarak, eleştirel biçimde incelenmektedir. Makalede, Avro krizinin ardından gerçekleştirilen reformlarla birlikte AB’de neoliberalizmin yeni bir aşamaya taşındığı ve daha gelişmiş gözetim, yaptırım ve baskı mekanizmalarıyla donatıldığı savunulmaktadır. Neoliberal reform ve kemer sıkma politikalarıyla geçen beş yıl AB’yi, demokratik hesap verebilirlik, dayanışma ve müzakereci demokrasi konularında ciddi sorunlarla karşı karşıya bırakmıştır. Bu gelişmeler AB’nin uluslararası sistemde kendi norm, değer ve prensiplerini yaymaya muktedir bir ‘normatif güç’ veya ‘norm koyucu’ aktör olduğu iddiasını bugün her zamankinden daha da tartışmalı hale getirmiştir.

Keywords

• AB'nin uluslararası kimliği, Avro Bölgesi Krizi, disipliner neoliberalizm, normatif güç

IS THE EUROPEAN UNION A NORMATIVE POWER? A REAPPRAISAL FOLLOWING THE EUROZONE CRISIS

Abstract

This article examines the relevance of the Normative Power EU hypothesis by taking the EU’s responses in the face of the Eurozone crisis as an empirical case, a litmus test for the EU’s normativity claims. Based on a critical, systematic investigation of the EU/IMF financial assistance programmes provided to crisis-hit members, this study argues that neoliberalism embedded in the EU has reached a new stage and has become equipped with very elaborate surveillance and coercion mechanisms. After a five year long disappointing history of neoliberal austerity, serious questions of democratic accountability, solidarity, and deliberative democracy have been raised. Today, the EU is not convincing in its claim to challenge deregulated globalisation and the Normative Power EU argument seems more and more contested than ever

Keywords

• EU’s international identity, Eurozone crisis, disciplinary neoliberalism, normative power

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