The EEAS navigating foreign policy paradigms Jørgensen, Knud Erik; Kaas, Jonas Gejl; Knudsen, Tonny Brems ...
European politics and society (Abingdon, England),
2022, Letnik:
23, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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Addressing the issue of EU foreign policy, this article analyses one of the European institutions, the EEAS, and examines how the EEAS navigates in a European landscape characterised by a handful of ...main foreign policy paradigms. In particular, we ask how the EEAS has adjusted its foreign policies in the light of competing paradigms. In the first section, we explicate the key concepts including policy paradigms, worldviews and public philosophy. Having thus provided the conceptual settings, the third section examines the main foreign policy paradigms that the EEAS will need to prudently navigate. We focus on four dimensions: world order and multilateralism, security, neighbours and climate change. The dimensions are chosen simply because they are at the top of the contemporary European policy agenda. While analysing paradigm shifts, we discuss how the topic of the article relates to the model of four Europes. Finally, we briefly conclude and outline wider perspectives.
Since the Great Recession in 2008, the academic debate has been flooded with literature that predicts the sunset of the liberal world order including the practice of humanitarian intervention as ...initiated at the United Nations (UN) in the early 1990s and regulated by the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in 2005. In contrast, this article argues that the practice of humanitarian intervention continues to operate under post-hegemonic and multipolar conditions, but in new ways. Based on a theorization of fundamental institutional change and exploratory case studies of the international reactions to the humanitarian crises in Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, Syria and Mali, and supportive evidence from Gambia and DR Congo, we show that contemporary humanitarian intervention is closely related to a normalization of the fundamental institution of great power management and a regionalization of international society. In this post-hegemonic world order, humanitarian intervention is shaped, facilitated or hampered by various practices of great power management including concert, soft balancing and hard balancing. The return of great-power competition means an inconsistent and sometimes counterproductive resort to humanitarian intervention far from the ideals of the R2P, but the growing importance of regional ownership affects the great powers, keeps this potential response to mass atrocity crimes on the table and adds to its legitimacy.
More specifically, the interplay between patterns of great power management and regional ownership on the one hand, and Danish activism on the other, is examined and interpreted based on the ...following sub-questions and parameters: a) The crisis and the UN/legal basis for the actions taken, b) the (shifting) patterns of great power management and regional ownership, c) the Danish contributions and actions, d) implications for Danish foreign policy in a changing world order. ...Denmark can no longer define its foreign policy as an automatic attachment to Washington.
The English School in retrospect and prospect Wilson, Peter; Zhang, Yongjin; Knudsen, Tonny Brems ...
Cooperation and Conflict,
03/2016, Letnik:
51, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
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Over the last few decades the English School (ES) has not only emerged, but has been acknowledged as a distinctive approach to the study of International Relations (IR). It is routinely listed in ...textbooks and disciplinary surveys as one of IR’s primary modes of inquiry, attracting interest and adherents in many parts of the world. This state of affairs is attributable to the work of a number of people, but especially to that of Barry Buzan. More than ‘reconvening’ the school, a metaphor misleading in some ways, Buzan has led, pushed and challenged his colleagues to better clarify and define their ideas, concepts and theories, as well as to put the ES on a much sounder organizational footing. Buzan’s (2014) latest book builds on his previous volume (Buzan, 2004a) to provide an introduction for readers new to the school. However, it does much more than this, providing a ‘state of the debate’ on such demanding matters as the expansion of international society, and the pluralist–solidarist divide. It also links present research efforts to the classics, putting into perspective and defining the school’s current research agenda for the next phase of its development. It has the potential to become a landmark work on a par with the classic work of the early ES, Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society. But how does Buzan’s research agenda respond to the requirements of an increasingly diverse and fragmenting discipline? Are his preferred analytical concepts and categories sound? Of what pitfalls should newcomers to the school be aware? In this symposium five established scholars, closely associated with the ES, seek to answer these questions, and in dialogue with Buzan, further advance our understanding of the school’s ‘societal’ approach and its potential for deepening our understanding of what at times appears a highly unsocial world.
Fra klassisk til ny engelsk skole Valbjørn, Morten; Glavind, Johanne Grøndahl; Brems Knudsen, Tonny
Politica,
01/2014
Journal Article
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Denne artikel sætter fokus på den nye engelske skole og dens revitaliseredeforskningsprogram, herunder fem centrale bidrag: (1) relanceringen af verdenssamfundsdimensionenmed fokus på ikke-statslige ...aktører, (2) revisionen afsondringen mellem pluralistiske og solidaristiske internationale samfund, (3) differentieringenaf det internationale samfund til to niveauer, det globale og detregionale, (4) videreudviklingen af skolens forståelse af internationale institutionerog (5) den større metodiske bre dde. Artiklen argumenterer for en fortsat udviklingaf anvendelsesorienteret middle-range teori, herunder både fortolkende ogforklarende analysestrategier.
Fra klassisk til ny engelsk skole Valbjørn, Morten; Glavind, Johanne Grøndahl; Brems Knudsen, Tonny
Politica (Århus, Denmark),
01/2014, Letnik:
46, Številka:
4
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Denne artikel sætter fokus på den nye engelske skole og dens revitaliseredeforskningsprogram, herunder fem centrale bidrag: (1) relanceringen af verdenssamfundsdimensionenmed fokus på ikke-statslige ...aktører, (2) revisionen afsondringen mellem pluralistiske og solidaristiske internationale samfund, (3) differentieringenaf det internationale samfund til to niveauer, det globale og detregionale, (4) videreudviklingen af skolens forståelse af internationale institutionerog (5) den større metodiske bre dde. Artiklen argumenterer for en fortsat udviklingaf anvendelsesorienteret middle-range teori, herunder både fortolkende ogforklarende analysestrategier.
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