Theorising Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations

TY - JOUR

T1 - Theorising Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations

AU - Manners, Ian James

PY - 2018/12/23

Y1 - 2018/12/23

N2 - This article provides a theoretical perspective on the question of how EU-Israeli-Palestinian relations should be conceived 50 years after the occupation. The article sets out how a critical social theory of normative power could be seen as a way both of analysing and changing these relations. According to Craig Calhoun, critical social theory should be seen as an ‘interpenetrating body of work which demands and produces critique… [that] depends on some manner of historical understanding and analysis.’ The normative power approach represents a critical social theory in that it seeks to be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. The article suggests how these criteria may be applied to the study of EU-Israeli-Palestinian relations and their consequences, 50 years after the occupation.

AB - This article provides a theoretical perspective on the question of how EU-Israeli-Palestinian relations should be conceived 50 years after the occupation. The article sets out how a critical social theory of normative power could be seen as a way both of analysing and changing these relations. According to Craig Calhoun, critical social theory should be seen as an ‘interpenetrating body of work which demands and produces critique… [that] depends on some manner of historical understanding and analysis.’ The normative power approach represents a critical social theory in that it seeks to be explanatory, practical, and normative, all at the same time. The article suggests how these criteria may be applied to the study of EU-Israeli-Palestinian relations and their consequences, 50 years after the occupation.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - European Union

KW - Israel

KW - Palestine

KW - Occupation

KW - Normative Power

U2 - 10.1080/19436149.2018.1510578

DO - 10.1080/19436149.2018.1510578

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0162-895X

VL - 27

SP - 321

EP - 334

JO - Political Psychology

JF - Political Psychology

IS - 4

M1 - 2

ER -