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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Marmara University, Institute of European Studies, Department of European Union Politics and International Relations (English), Turkey
Approval Date: 2017
Thesis Language: English
Student: BİRKE BOYAT
Supervisor: Armağan Emre Çakır
Abstract:
The thesis analyses the European Union's existence in the neorealist international system. In contrast with the EU's claim of being a normative power, hypothesis in the thesis is that the EU, or the EU member-states, act(s) in favor their national interests according to the neorealist international system's rules, rather than norms that it set. The EU's structure, the meaning of normative power, norms and values that are set by the EU, counter hypotheses against the EUs claim of being a normative power, neorealist theory's basis and neorealist features that the EU has are explained and all of them are supported by case study analyses. The thesis is emerged of theoretical framework completely, and this theoretical framework is supported by case studies that are seen in practice in the international system.