The Africa-Eu Strategic Partnership

UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI FAKULTETA ZA DRUŽBENE VEDE Martina Škrobar 21090560 mag. Mojca Jarc THE AFRICA-EU STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Empowering Africa: normative power in EUAfrica relations Seminar paper International Relations, 2. class English Ljubljana, 20. 11. 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction2 2. Summary2 3. Analysis5 4. shutdown5 5. Glossary of terms6 5.1 Terms6 5.2 Unknown words8 6. References9 1. Introduction The European Unions (EU) individualism construction as a normative power (NP) has often been described as a practice by which the EU portrays itself as a campaign for good while at the very(prenominal) time picture other actors as inferior, thereby dis chargeing them rhetorically. In contrast to this, divergent findings indicate that in its relations to Sub-Saharan Africa, the EU intends to empower African countries by referring to them in a framework of solidarity and partnership.

The elect denomination traced this mechanism of empowering by analysing how the EU promoted the International wretched Court (ICC) and the Kyoto Protocol to African countries while at the same time trying to enable these countries to play an active parting in the negotiations related to these institutions as well as in the institutions themselves. At the same time, though, this attempt to empower Africa displays crucial limits concerning the strength of the EUs attempts to promote norms and the international image of the EU itself. The article argued that these limits might constrain the process of EU identity construction as a normative power. I am going to analyze the relationship EU was and still is adopting towards African countries and their attitudes to one another. With different theories and arguments that are presented in my chosen article I will try to confirm or to pass judgment my hypotheses, that despite the variety of interests EU might have in empowering... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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