Norms over Force The Enigma of European Power

Does Europe have the means to defend its own social model in a globalized world at a time when the United States, China, India and Russia are concerned by enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? Would Europe, who would never be a 'super state', be able to impose norms over force? That is the main question this book addresses in a very original way.

Zaki Laïdi is Senior Research fellow and Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He has extensively published on International Relation, globalization and Europe. He recently published The Great Disruption, Polity, 2007. He edited EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, Routledge, 2008.

List of Tables	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Why Europe Cannot Be a Superpower	p. 7
What Is a Superpower?	p. 8
Power Avoidance	p. 12
Hard Power and Soft Power	p. 18
The Impossible American Parallel	p. 24
Power with No Anchoring Point	p. 28
Norms over Power	p. 35
Normative Power: The Genealogy of a Concept	p. 35
The Conceptual Foundations of Normative Power	p. 40
What Is a Normative Power?	p. 42
Why Does Europe Prefer Norms?	p. 44
European Governance and Global Governance	p. 47
Norms for What Preferences?	p. 51
The Rejection of Realpolitik	p. 53
Belief in the Civilizing Power of Trade	p. 60
The Norms Europe Stands For	p. 65
The Defense of Nonmarket Values	p. 69
The Environmental Preference	p. 70
The Controversial Use of the Precautionary Principle	p. 75
Defense of the Multifunctionality of Agriculture	p. 79
Collective Preferences as Doctrine?	p. 82
European Governance and American Sovereignism	p. 89
Europe's Normative Achievements	p. 91
Why Europe Does Better	p. 97
The Preference for Shared Sovereignty	p. 102
The American Counterrevolution	p. 103
American Legal Revisionism	p. 106
The Attack on Global Governance	p. 107
Fire on Europe!	p. 110
Is Constitutionalizing the World Order the Answer?	p. 113
The Baroque World Picture	p. 114
The Dangers of Constitutionalizing the World Order	p. 117
Norms and Geopolitics	p. 125
Norms and Asymmetry	p. 127
Conclusion	p. 135
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 161
Index	p. 177
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