Review article
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.21.2.12
European Political Integration and Promotion of Peace: Advantages and Disadvantages of the European Union’s Peacemaking
Hrvoje Špehar
orcid.org/0000-0001-7950-5471
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with the research of the peace-making aspects of European political integration and with the deficits of European peacemaking, as well as attempts to explain the nature of European political integration as provided by political theory. The paper relies on research presented by John McCormick, Zaki Laïdi, Sabine Saurugger, Renaud Dehousse, Hans Vorländer, Gilbert Merlio and others, dealing with the theory of European integration, the peacemaking aspects of European integration, the advantages and disadvantages of the political system of the European Union, and the strengths and weaknesses of European democracy. The aspects of the peace-making capacity of the European Union are individually researched based on McCormick’s analysis, which are joined by the criticism of the specific normative force of the European Union as described by Laïdi. The author concludes that in the conditions of global crises, especially in the forms of war conflicts, the action of the European Union in the field of peacemaking shows significant deficits, which are based on the internal predispositions of this specific political system.
Keywords
European integration; European Union; Europeanization; peacemaking
Hrčak ID:
306179
URI
Publication date:
17.7.2023.
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