Normative Power Europe and the Moral Economy of Africa-EU Ties: A Conceptual Reorientation of 'Normative Power'

New Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 243-270

  Langan, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACP states; Cotonou Agreement; development; EPAs; EU; moral economy; moral political economy; normative power; trade

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MORALITY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL POWER;

AFRICA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; EUROPE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863502937     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2011.562975     Document Type: Article

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