Gaps in EU Foreign Policy The Role of Concepts in European Studies
This book argues that theories of European foreign policy are performative: they create the objects they analyse. In this text, Larsen outlines the performativity approach to the role of theories based on the work of Derrida and goes on to examine th
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Henrik Larsen
Gaps in EU Foreign Policy The Role of Concepts in European Studies
Henrik Larsen Department of Political Science University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN 978-1-349-95165-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95166-6
ISBN 978-1-349-95166-6 (eBook)
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction Note 2 The Performativity of Theories 2.1 Performativity 2.2 Derrida and Performativity 2.3 Implications for the Study of the Performativity of the CEG 2.4 Derrida’s Double Reading 2.5 Double Reading and the CEG
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3 The Capability-Expectations Gap: A Double Reading 3.1 First Reading 3.1.1 The Capability-Expectations Gap, or Conceptualising Europe’s International Role 3.1.2 Closing the Capabilities-Expectations Gap? (1998) 3.1.3 Hill’s Subsequent Work on the CEG 3.1.4 The Dominant CEG Narrative 3.2 Second Reading 3.2.1 Summary of Deconstructivist Reading Notes
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4 The Performativity of the Capability-Expectations Gap 4.1 The CEG as Standard Reference 4.2 CEG as Framework for Analysis
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4.3 Transformation of the CEG Through Identification of Other Gaps 4.4 Concluding Remarks Notes
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5 Implications of the Gap Discourse for the Study of (Europ
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