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The Unintended Consequences Of European Power

Author(s):

  • Laidi, Zaki

Series Name: Michigan Paper Series

Publisher: Centre d'Etudes Europeennes, Sciences Po.

Publication Date: 2008

Description: *Why does Europe favour norms as its mode of influence? *Why has its normative influence become global? *What are the main areas for externalizing European norms? These are three questions that this paper will attempt to answer.

Author Bio: Zaki Laïdi is a Senior Research fellow at the Centre d'Etudes Européennes of SciencesPo. (Paris) and a professor at College of Europe (Bruges). He has written extensively on international relations, globalization and more recently on European affairs. He has recently published The Great Disruption (Polity, 2007), Norms over Force. The Enigma of European Power (Palgrave, 2008). He has edited a forthcoming volume on EU Foreign Policy in a globalized world. Normative power and social preferences (Routledge). He was a special adviser to Pascal Lamy the former commissioner for trade. He is currently member of the Commission on the French white Paper on foreign policy and European affairs. A complete bio is available on his personal website: www.laidi.com (contact:zaki.laidi@sciencespo.fr)

Document: /UMICH/ceseuc/Home/EVENTS & PROGRAMS/Michigan Paper Series/Zaki_Laidi_-THE_NORMATIVE_EMPIRE_ENG-2.pdf

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