Importing EU Norms

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: To Take or Not to Take EU Norms? Adoption, Adaptation, Resistance and Rejection

   • Annika Björkdahl, Natalia Chaban, John Leslie, Annick Masselot

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3. Adoption

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Selective and Reluctant Adopter: The Czech Republic and Its (Non)Accession to Schengen and Eurozone

      • Ivo Šlosarčík

      Pages 13-22

   3. Mobility in Principle and Practice: Multilevel Adoption of Free Movement Norms in a European Cross-border Region

      • Toni Grace

      Pages 23-38

   4. The EU and Global Economic Governance: Playing the Role of a Global Leader?

      • Rikard Bengtsson

      Pages 39-54

4. Adaptation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Perceptions of ‘Normative Power Europe’ in the Shadow of the Eurozone Debt Crisis: Public Perspectives on European Integration from the Asia Pacific

      • Natalia Chaban, Serena Kelly, Martin Holland

      Pages 57-77

   3. From One Single Market to Another: European Integration, Australasian Ambivalence and Construction of the Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market

      • John Leslie, Annmarie Elijah

      Pages 79-95

   4. Moving Freely, but Taking a Different Route: Comparing Trans-Tasman and European Union Norms of Human Mobility

      • Kate McMillan

      Pages 97-113

   5. Exporting Hard Law Through Soft Norms: New Zealand’s Reception of European Standards

      • W. John Hopkins, Henrietta S. McNeill

      Pages 115-130

5. Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. The EPA-Negotiations: A Channel for Norm Export and Import?

      • Annika Björkdahl, Ole Elgström

      Pages 133-152

   3. Ambitions Versus Capacity: The Role of Institutions in ASEAN

      • Avery Poole

      Pages 153-167

   4. Reception of EU Trade Mark Law in New Zealand

      • Alison Firth

      Pages 169-188

6. Rejection

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The Value of Gender Equality in EU-Asian Trade Policy: An Assessment of the EU’s Ability to Implement Its Own Legal Obligations

      • Maria Garcia, Annick Masselot

      Pages 191-209

   3. Russia’s Complex Engagement with European Union Norms: Sovereign Democracy versus Post-Westphalianism?

      • James Headley

      Pages 211-229

   4. The Diffusion of EU Norms to China: The Case of Tibet

      • Wenwen Shen

      Pages 231-246

   5. Conclusion

      • Annika Björkdahl, Natalia Chaban, John Leslie, Annick Masselot

      Pages 247-256

This interdisciplinary work presents a conceptual framework and brings together constructivist and rationalist accounts of how EU norms are adopted, adapted, resisted or rejected. These chapters provide empirical cases and critical analysis of a rich variety of norm-takers from EU member states, European and non-European states, including the rejection of EU norms in Russia and Africa as well as adaptation of EU practices in Australia and New Zealand. Chapters on China, ASEAN and the Czech Republic demonstrate resistance to EU norm export. This volume probes differences in willingness to adopt or adapt norms between various actors in the recipient state and explores such questions as: How do norm-takers perceive of the EU and its norms? Is there a ‘normative fit’ between EU norms and the local normative context? Similarly, how do EU norms impact recipients’ interests and institutional arrangements? First, the authors map EU norm export strategies and approaches as they affect norm-takers. Second, the chapters recognize that norm adoption, adaption, resistance or rejection is a product of interaction and a relationship in which interdependence, asymmetry and power play a role. Third, we see that domestic circumstances within norm-takers condition the reception of norms. This book’s focus on norm-takers highlights the reflexive nature of norm diffusion and that nature has implications for the EU itself as a norm exporter.  Anyone with an interest in the research agenda on norm diffusion, normative power and the EU’s normative dialogue with the world will find this book highly valuable, including scholars, policy makers and students of subjects including political science, European studies, international relations and international and EU law.

• Accession of the Czech Republic in the Eurozone
• Construction of the Trans-Tasman Single Economic Market
• Diffusion of EU Norms to China
• EPA-Negotiations
• Europe and Global Economic Governance
• European Integration
• Free Movement Norms in a European Cross-Border Regions
• Free Movement in the Cross-Border Oresund Region
• Gender Equality in EU-Asian Trade Policy
• Global Economic Governance in the EU
• Normative Leadership in Economic Crisis
• Normative Power Europe
• Perspectives after the Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis
• The Czech Republic and the Schengen Membership

This volume fills a major gap in our understanding of the European Union’s normative power with its focus on the perceptions of third party recipients of EU norms and values. The editors have produced a book that combines conceptually strength with empirical richness to addresses an academic lacunae on the EU’s norm takers to excellent effect.

Professor Richard G. Whitman 
Professor of Politics and International Relations
Director, Global Europe Centre
University of Kent

This exceptional volume makes a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the research agenda on normative power by examining thirteen case studies in the impact of the cultural filter on EU norm diffusion. A genuinely rich diversity of scholars and case studies from across the world, including European, African, Australasian, Asian and global analyses, develop the cultural filter of EU norm adoption, adaption, resistance or rejection to excellent effect. Through an analytical emphasis on how the EU is received and perceived in the rest of the world, the volume makes an original and ground-breaking contribution to understanding the reflexive nature of EU norm diffusion and normative power.

Professor Ian Manners,
Department of Political Science,
University of Copenhagen

 

• Department of Political Science, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

  Annika Björkdahl

• National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Natalia Chaban

• Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  John Leslie

• College of Business and Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Annick Masselot

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