Normer i EU:s gemensamrna utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik- en teoriapplikation av Normative Power Europe avseende utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiska uttalanden före och efter Lissabonfördraget

Abstract

This bachelor thesis airns to examine change in Common Foreign and Security Policy towards a Normative Power Europe irnplernented in the Treaty of Lis bon. The survey is conducted with Ian Manners Norrnative Power Europe theory as the basis. U sing norms identified by Manners in his article "Normative Power Europe: A Contradietian in Terms?" (2002) as the tools when analysing CFSP-staternents both from before and after ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon. The norms used in the analysis are Peace, Dernocracy and Human Rights. The presence of the different norms in the EU CFSP-staternents indicates in what way the new treaty has developed the CFSP. Furthermore this study exarnines whether or not we can se differences when it cornes to language and terminology when camparing CFSP-staternents before and after the Reform Treaty. The application of the Normative Power Europe theory shows that despite the fact that statementsafter Lisbon are issued by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, no longer the Presidency, little has changed. All in all one can say that the survey has shown that the EU has a norrnative agenda, and that norms are frequently occurring in foreign policy, even though on e can not see that the Trea ty of Lisbon has brought a enlargernent of the normative dimension. Rather the stud y shows that the presence of norms in EU foreign policy is consistent over time.