Theorising Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations

Ian James Manners

doi:10.1080/19436149.2018.1510578

Theorising Normative Power in European Union-Israeli-Palestinian Relations

Ian James Manners

Centre for European Politics

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	2
Journal	Political Psychology
Volume	27
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	321-334
Number of pages	14
ISSN	0162-895X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2018.1510578
Publication status	Published - 23 Dec 2018

Keywords

Faculty of Social Sciences
European Union
Israel
Palestine
Occupation
Normative Power

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