The EU and Multidimensional Forms of Power: Critical Moments and Change in Actorness and Power

Tamara Hoch Jovanovic and Sanne Brasch Kristensen

International Journal of Public Administration, 2015, vol. 38, issue 12, 838-848

Abstract: This article introduces a framework for studying the European Union (EU) as power by focusing on what EU does rather than what EU is. Conceptualizing EU as a regional international society, EU is constituted along multidimensional lines. While a code of conduct limits internal and external practices, critical moments are important junctures for practitioners to reinterpret norms and rules, leading to the reproduction of EU as power. The practice of minority rights illustrates how a lack of intersubjectivity limits the EU’s power. It is first through practitioners’ engagement with norms and rules that new practices are established.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2015.1053609

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