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Deconstructing "Ideal Power Europe" - The EU and the Arab Change (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing "Ideal Power Europe" - The EU and the Arab Change (Hardcover)
Series: Europe and the World
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Deconstructing "Ideal Power Europe": The EU and Arab Change
criticizes the dominant discourse on European foreign policy, which
represents the EU as a force for good in world politics. Using a
poststructuralist approach, it deconstructs the EU's representation
as "an ideal power" through an analysis of European foreign policy
on the Southern Mediterranean before and after the Arab uprisings.
In this endeavor, it displaces three major discourses which
construct the EU as "ideal": the "postmodern and post-sovereign
EU", "the EU as a model/a virtuous example", and, "the EU as a
normative power" discourses. The major argument of the book is that
the "ideal power Europe" meta-narrative is especially produced and
reproduced in the EU's approach towards the Southern Mediterranean,
and, it manifests itself through the rhetoric of "responsibility"
and "universality" in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings. The book
also provides an analysis of how the "ideal power Europe"
meta-narrative feeds into and legitimizes European governmentality
in the world, in general, and, in the case of the Southern
Mediterranean after the Arab uprisings, in particular. Arguing that
the depiction of the EU as postmodern/post-sovereign, as a model/an
exemplar, and as a normative power pertains to the representation
of a "regulatory ideal", it elucidates how the EU pursues hegemonic
practices in the Southern Mediterranean. It further manifests how
the EU's governmentality is marked by a securitized,
depoliticizing, and technocratic approach which feeds into and gets
legitimized by the dominant discourse on European foreign policy;
reproducing the EU's "ideal" identity vis-a-vis its "imperfect"
Arab other.
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