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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Normative power"”.
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In the era of normative power Europe
… seemingly placed considerable stock in soft power, with a view to maneuvering to claim increased space and thus boost their standing in global politics as normative powers. In this context, focusing in on the European Union (EU), the second dimension of the two-tiered puzzle the dissertation …
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The European Union as a normative power and its relations with Israel
… overall relations with Israel. The concept of a ‘Normative Power Europe’ (NPE) has been repeatedly cited as the framework which governs the relations between the EU and international actors and this dissertation will analyse two specific cases concerning Israel where NPE takes centre stage in …
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Reforming investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS): European Union flexing its normative power?
… whether the European Union (‘EU’) is acting as a normative power in its pursuit of reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) in the form of the European Commission’s (‘Commission’) proposals on the Investment Court System (‘ICS’). The EU has emerged as a major player in international …
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The European Union as a normative power: Europe's new neighborhood and energy policies
… devote their lives to studying both how European power came to be and analyzing the character of that power. The vast majority of the resulting scholarship fails to empirically test the arguments set forth. While rich in theoretical insights, the lack of empirical support renders the debate …
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Is the European Union (EU) a normative power?: an in-depth look at its actions and policies on refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants
… its actions and jeopardizing its reputation as a normative power.</p>
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A compliance study of secretarial roles in organizations
… as a base for the assessment of involvement and power to describe the role of the secretary in organizational administrative units. The majority of Certified Professional Secretaries reported their involvement as moral and the power exerted by their supervisors as normative. Moral involvement and …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
This thesis examines the violence of normative power in contemporary biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… (between particular kinds of organizational power and involvement) over different ranks of a variety of organizations whose members were relatively free to stay or leave. A secondary aim was to compare organizational power to other predictors of involvement suggested in the literature. Four …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… (between particular kinds of organizational power and involvement) over different ranks of a variety of organizations whose members were relatively free to stay or leave. A secondary aim was to compare organizational power to other predictors of involvement suggested in the literature. Four …
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Inside the Moral Nexus: On Wrongs, Rights, and Normative Powers
… always involve a rights violation. Consent is a normative power that allows us to alter the duties that others owe to us. By giving consent, we can make it so that something something that would otherwise wrong us, does not. In chapter 2, “The Normative Power of Uptake”, I ague that morally …
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The EU straying from the norm: How the European Union has changed its narrative to respond to China’s belt and road initiative
… The European Union is often described as a normative world power, that is, the EU acts in pursuit of its ideals rather than in a material or physical pursuit. My hypothesis is that the EU is straying from its normative power narrative and undertaking a more realist perspective in order to …
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Standing Trans Before the Law
… argue that trans people turn to the law for its normative power which sets the parameters of inclusion that, in some ways, constrains lives even as they enable them. To be normal is not only to be average but also to be valued, which counterbalances the stigma and dehumanization many marginalized …
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Tiger's Eye & Twine, with Sails in Flame: A Triptych
… in order to search for languages outside of normative power structures and toward a more realized queer possibility.
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Gender Norms and Gendered Traits
… norm responsiveness has considerable power over choice and behavior; but a category-based view does not explain this it. Moreover, many marginalized people are actively excluded from dominant, white-centric, cisnormative gender categories. However, the norms associated with these …
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The Application of the Principle of Mutual Recognition in EU Criminal Law Matters - Internally and Externally vis-à-vis Pre-Accession Policy
… the two pillars upon which the concepts of Normative Power Europe rests: the EU’s normative identity and its normative influence to examine the principle of mutual recognition from both sides. It demonstrates that, internally, the non-commitment to the foundational values which lie at the …
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When Shengcun Quan meet Due Diligence, A Comparative Perspective on Business and Human Rights in the EU and China
… extensive regulatory apparatus and its role as a normative power in promoting human rights globally. A final comparative assessment will identify internal and external enforcement challenges and the politicisation of BHR in EU and Chinese foreign policy. By examining legislation, case law, policy …
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
… but a theoretical task. If examples inform our normative horizons, how can they serve as standards for justice without collapsing into moralist abstraction or realist resignation? This dissertation positions Hannah Arendt as uniquely responsive to this circle and the crisis it names. Against …
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Who is popular in popular culture? A qualitative study about children, television, and race in Argentina
… with popular culture, it is my argument that the normative power of these representations –while very much present in the children’s accounts of who belongs in television and why– is actively challenged when the narrative turns from “them” (other children) to “me”. At the same time that I study …
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Rethinking hegemony as an educative-formative problem: Gramsci, post-Marxism, and radical democracy revisited
… to the merits of Gramsci's assessment of the normative power of existing forms of thought to distort mankind's own socio-human potential. As I endeavour to illustrate within this study, Gramsci conceived the problem of 'democracy' as essentially one of overcoming the cognitive and moral …
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Towards an ever closer union: with the Turks next door? Is Turkey the ideal energy partner for the EU?
… the EU’s ability to influence, or exercise normative power, within the region. Through partnership with Turkey for projects such as the Nabucco pipeline, the EU has already been able to bridge gaps in its relations with countries in the Caspian region, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. …
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