Essays about: "normative power Europe"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 39 essays containing the words normative power Europe.

  1. 26. Normative power and democracy promotion in the European Neighbourhood Policy – A comparative case study of Azerbaijan and Egypt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sara Nordkvist; [2015]
    Keywords : democracy; normative power; values; political dialogue; commitment; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is deemed to be the EU’s most ambitious initiative to date. The EU is often considered to have normative power over partner countries and therefore the concept of Normative Power Europe has been investigated. READ MORE

  2. 27. Importing products, exporting standards? : examining how the European Union diffuses sustainable process and production methods through trade restriction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Ina Maria Möller; [2014]
    Keywords : Market Power Europe; Normative Power Europe; EU; PPMs; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The production and consumption of material goods, and the expansion of globalised trade have led to an increased outsourcing of resource depletion and pollution by post-industrialised countries. Although governments with sustainability policies may have improved standards in process and production methods (PPMs) within their own territories, the consumption of imported goods continues to have negative social and environmental impacts in the countries of origin. READ MORE

  3. 28. Framing energy cooperation- the case of the European Union Association Agreements with Moldova and Georgia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Agnes Löfgren; [2014]
    Keywords : EU Association Agreements; energy cooperation; frame analysis; normative power Europe; energy security; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Energy crisis and energy disruptions have contributed to the current securitization and politicization of energy within the European Union (EU). Today the energy policy is a part of the EU external relations, at the same time as the EU is regarded as an actor with the power to spread values and norms in the international arena. READ MORE

  4. 29. Knocking on the European Door? Normative Power Europe and the Turkish EU Accession

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Astrid Maria Öberg; [2013]
    Keywords : Normative Power Europe; Conditionality; Compliance; Enlargement; Turkey;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the discussions on the ‘Normative Power Europe’ thesis, EU enlargement, conditionality and compliance, and the extent to which rational and ideational forces are mutually exclusive in this context. Through a qualitative case study of Turkey, it will investigate to what extent the EU can be seen as possessing and exercising normative power through its enlargement policy. READ MORE

  5. 30. A Critical Reading of the Scholarly and ICT Industry’s Construction of Ambient Intelligence for Societal Transformation of Europe

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2012]
    Keywords : AmI; ICT; AmI vision; AmI discourse; construction; discourse analysis; power; ideology; social transformation; society; citizens; ISTAG; ICT industry; scholarly; European; social; critical; Foucault;

    Abstract : Ambient Intelligence (AmI) refers to a vision of the information society where everyday human environments will be permeated by intelligent technology: people will be surrounded and accompanied by intelligent interfaces supported by computing and wireless networking technology that is ubiquitous, embedded in virtually all kinds of everyday objects. These computationally augmented, smart environments - composed of a myriad of invisible, distributed, networked, connected, interactive, and always-on computing devices - are aware of human context; sensitive to people's needs; adaptive to, and anticipatory of, their behavior; personalized to their requirements; and responsive to their emotion and presence, thereby intelligently supporting their daily and social lives by providing limitless services in a seamless and unobtrusive way. READ MORE