Journals / Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi / 2014 / Cilt: 36 - Sayı: 2

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

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

Pages
327–348
Publication Date
2015-03-16
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

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

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis: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.
📊
Key Findings & Data: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.
💡
Conclusion & Impact: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
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:AB'nin uluslararası kimliği · Avro Bölgesi Krizi · disipliner neoliberalizm

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

Özet

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.

🔖

Cite This Article

TEKİN, B. (2015). IS THE EUROPEAN UNION A NORMATIVE POWER? A REAPPRAISAL FOLLOWING THE EUROZONE CRISIS. Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 36 - Sayı: 2, 327–348. https://ajindex.com/articles/6488

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (3)

  1. DE ZUTTER, Elisabeth, “Normative power spotting: an ontological and methodological appraisal”, Journal of European Public Policy, 17(8), 2010, pp. 1106- 1127. DIEZ, Thomas and MANNERS, Ian, “Reflecting on Normative Power Europe”, in F. Berenskoetter, & M. J. Williams (Eds.), Power in World Politics, New York, Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-188.
  2. ERIKSEN, Erik O., “The EU- a cosmopolitan polity?”, Journal of European Public Policy, 13(2), 2006, pp. 252-269. EUROGROUP, “Eurogroup response to the questionnaire of the European Parliament on the troika”, 2014 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/ cont/201401/20140114ATT77339/20140114ATT77339EN.pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014). EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, “ECB response to the questionnaire of the European Parliament on the troika”, 2014. http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/140110_ecb_response_troika_questionnaireen.pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014). EUROPEAN COMMISSION, “European Commission response to the questionnaire of the European Parliament on the troika”, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201401/20140114ATT77315/20140114ATT77315EN. pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014). EUROPEAN COUNCIL, “European Council response to the questionnaire of the European Parliament on the troika (Herman Van Rompuy Letter)”, 2013, http:// www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201401/20140114ATT77309/20140114ATT77309EN.pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014). EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, “Questionnaire supporting the own initiative report evaluating the structure, the role and operations of the ‘troika’ (Commission, ECB and the IMF) actions in euro area programme countries”, 2013, http:// www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201401/20140114ATT77313/20140114ATT77313EN.pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014). EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, “Report on the enquiry on the role and operations of the Troika (ECB, Commission and IMF) with regard to the euro area programme countries”, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, 2014, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A7-2014-0149+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN, Accessed (18.06.2014) ETUC, “The Functioning of the Troika: A Report from the ETUC”, European Trade Union Confederation, Brussels, 2014, http://www.etuc.org/sites/www.etuc. org/files/press-release/files/the_functioning_of_the_troika_finaledit2.pdf, Accessed (18.06.2014)
  3. GILL, Stephen, ‘‘Globalization, Market Civilization, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism’’, Millennium-Journal of International Studies, 24(3), 1995, pp. 399- 423