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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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"Normative Power Europe – How Effective Is It? EU – African Union Relations in the Fields of Environmental Protection and Human Rights" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252313_index.html>

, 2008-03-26 "Normative Power Europe – How Effective Is It? EU – African Union Relations in the Fields of Environmental Protection and Human Rights" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252313_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: According to Ian Manners (2002), the emerging identity of the European Union (EU) as an international actor is that of a normative power. Manners’ article sparked a lively debate, the contributions to which mainly concerned the further elaboration of the theoretical concept of normative power. Whilst this elaboration and clarification was necessary and valuable, it shifted the attention away from the study of the empirical effects of the EU’s normative power in international relations. Against the background of this debate, the objective of this paper lies in taking up Manners’ initial concern to trace the effectiveness of the EU’s normative power with respect to third states. Specifically, the paper investigates EU normative power on African Union (AU) policy, focusing on the impact of EU environmental and human rights norms.In particular, we will investigate the cases of the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Our hypothesis is that in both cases the EU had a decisive impact on the AU with respect to the interpretation and adoption of human rights norms and principles of environmental protection. In particular, we argue that the EU was able to shape the ’technical’ discourse about the ICC and the Kyoto protocol. Both institutions are highly technical in nature and therefore negotiating them required high degrees of expertise that African States and the AU were largely lacking. Thus, whilst the perceived legitimacy of the EU as an international actor is a crucial precondition for the effectiveness of its normative power, the provision of legal and/or scientific expertise had the greatest traceable impact on AU policy regarding the Kyoto Protocol and the ICC.

Normative Dissonance, Sovereign In-Equality and the Protection of Human Rights

Regional Protection of Human Rights as Field of Research of Human Rights, Comparative Politics, International Law and International Organization Theory