The European Union as a Minervian Actor in Global Institution Building

Ian Manners

The European Union as a Minervian Actor in Global Institution Building

Abstract

This chapter argues that both the causal elements of domestic/state political leadership, supranational competition, and cosmopolitical normative activism, together with the constitutive element of a ‘normative power’ self image, are important in understanding the EU as a Minervan power. It introduces constitutive and causal theories, the internal origins of the EU’s norms, EU normative principles, and considers the EU’s external practices in action in order to understand the EU as a Minervan power in global institution building. The chapter illustrates this through the EU notion of “effective multilateralism” embracing the active diplomacy of states, the strengthening of supranational and international institutions, and the engagement with the cosmopolitical and transnational activists that capture the EU as a Minervan power in global institution building.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Leadership in Global Institution Building : Minerva's Rule
Editors	Yves Tiberghien
Number of pages	15
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2013
Pages	33-48
Chapter	3
ISBN (Print)	9781137023728
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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