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MILLENNIUM-JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, vol.40, no.3, pp.563-583, 2012 (SSCI)
This article attempts to criticise European foreign policy research from within, portraying how some of its scripts are privileged and how they construct an 'ideal power Europe' meta-narrative. It argues that European foreign policy researchers engage in such construction through, firstly, assuming that the EU is post-sovereign/post-modern; secondly, naming the EU as a model; and, finally, conceptualising the Union as a normative power. The article scrutinises European foreign policy research through a deconstruction of its texts and displays how certain knowledge about the EU and European foreign policy is produced and reproduced. It further reveals how the 'ideal power Europe' meta-narrative contributes to the dominative dimension of European foreign policy.