dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Beers, M.C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cober, R.W.C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-02T19:00:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-02T19:00:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/39039 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the self-representation of the normative power identity of the European Union through the case-study of the International Criminal Court (ICC), in the period of 2002-2005. Drawing upon the notion that identity is discursively constructed in relation to Others, this thesis examines how EU-actors have constructed the EU’s international identity as a normative power, in relation to the US as the EU’s non-normative Other. The ICC is an important case study in this regard, due to the importance of multilateralism and international law for the EU’s normative self-representation. Furthermore, disagreements over multilateralism and the ICC specifically, contributed to a worsening of transatlantic relations during this period. Drawing upon key theoretical notions with regard to the EU’s identity-construction, this thesis analyses the EU’s discourse from the perspective of specific functions of identity-discourse. It is argued that the EU has constructed a normative, multilateral identity in order to contribute to the construction of a European political identity, as well as a distinctive international identity. The identity of the EU has been fundamentally constructed in relation to the US as its Other in the context of the ICC, through a discourse of values, multilateralism and othering. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 554240 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Significant Other? The self-representation of Normative Power Europe:
The United States as the EU’s Other in the context of the International Criminal
Court, 2002-2005 | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | normative power Europe, European foreign policy, international identity,European identity, discourse analysis, transatlantic relations, othering | |
dc.subject.courseuu | International Relations in Historical Perspective | |