Normative Intervention
Abstract: This paper is a qualitative case study of the Normative Power Europe theory and Neo-realism, which will be applied to the case of EUFOR´s intervention in Chad and the Central African Republic. The paper seeks to find if European military interventions can be explained with a normative approach. The paper outlines the key elements in these two theoretical perspectives and uses them to analyze the case. From the analysis, I discuss the reach and limitation of these two perspectives to assess where these two perspective overlap and differs. The result shows that a normative approach does not explain the motives for military intervention. When analyzed from neo-realism it presents underlying motives for the involved actors. The conclusion is that a normative approach to military intervention is counter-productive for an actor relaying on normative power.
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