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By Sonia Lucarelli, Ian Manners

This publication offers a clean exam ofВ the values and rules that tell european overseas coverage, exploring the results of those values and ideas at the development of ecu Union id at the present time.

The authors exhibit how present debates on ecu Union overseas coverage and on eu id are usually stored separated, as though the method of id formation had simply an inner size or it was once now not concerning the exterior behaviour of a world actor. Conceiving ecu overseas coverage in its broadest context as a suite of political activities which are seemed by way of exterior actors as ‘EU’ activities, the booklet specializes in either Pillar I and Pillar II regulations, concerning ecu and member nation activities and fabric political activities and not more fabric ones comparable to speech acts.

Adopting a multidisciplinary standpoint and drawing on political technological know-how, political economic system, sociology, environmental technological know-how and women’s stories, this booklet should be of serious curiosity to scholars and students of ecu stories and politics.

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In contrast, European states also contribute significant amounts of resources to military research, technology and forces, in particular through participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). This uneasy compromise between peaceful development policies and interventionist military capabilities is further complicated through long standing European participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. This compromise has been demonstrated in the complexities of the three most visible military interventions involving European forces in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The analysis of EU democracy and human rights promotion continues with Stefania Panebianco’s analysis of EU relations with Russia and China in chapter Sonia Lucarelli 17 eight. In this informative chapter, Panebianco is critical about reading the EU’s policy as exclusively value guided and stresses the security concerns that guide EU policy in these areas. It shows the inconsistencies of such a policy and the difficulties that the EU encounters when trying to export a culturally bound concept of human rights that is by no means as ‘universal’ as it might appear.

In contrast, ‘Western values’ of moral decay and excessive individualism (including democracy and human rights) were argued to be responsible for relative Western economic decline during the same period. Some even went as far as to argue that it is possible to contrast the ‘European way of thinking’ as Cartesian with the ‘Asian way of thinking’ as holistic (Servaes 2000: 58–59). However, it is quite clear that these sorts of arguments based on elite discourses are used by some Asian governments as ‘pretexts for resisting calls for democracy and human rights’ and that we must look at ‘who has the power to determine such values and definitions’ (Kyi Aung 1995: 11–12).

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