Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.37173/cirr.26.87.1
On the Norms and Habits of the European Union as a Meta-organisation
Marina V. Strezhneva
orcid.org/0000-0002-6561-4367
; Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)
Sažetak
With the aim of methodological reflection, this article analyses
the three approaches (realist, constructivist and relational) in
international relations theory most commonly employed to study
foreign policy and the global influence of the European Union. Pivotal
notions such as ‘agency’, ‘identity’, ‘norms’, ‘system’ and ‘practice’
provide us with navigation points between these approaches,
enabling us to achieve a clearer impression of the many different
meanings these terms can contain. These meanings, in their turn, fix
the direction, limitations and scope of any concrete theoretic analysis.
This article is meant to draw particular attention to Bourdieuvian
practice theor y and Alexander Bogdanov’s tektology as two
differing variants of relationism, with a view to overcoming certain
deficiencies in application to the studies of the EU of methodological
individualism, as employed in more ‘traditional’ theories. To illustrate
the relationalist way of theorising when dealing with the paradoxes
of the EU external policies and global role, a follow-up interpretation,
based on tektology, is given in conclusion to the resilience turn in the
EU global strategy
Ključne riječi
European Union; International Relations; Organisation Theory; Tektology; Resilience
Hrčak ID:
247829
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2020.
Posjeta: 1.708 *