Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diğer, ss.1-4, 2020
The EU’s definition of itself as a model with best
practices empower it to determine the rules of
regional integration/cooperation, democratization,
peacebuilding, etc. This also legitimizes its asymmetrical approach towards some third countries
and regions, where it sets the rules and the others are
expected to fulfil them. When the EU imposes its best
practices on others through such logic, it overlooks
the specific cultural, economic and social
characteristics of those countries and regions and the
everyday needs of local peoples. Thus, if the EU aims
at achieving an ideal type of peace (hybrid peace) it
needs to gear its policies towards a bottom-up
approach which takes into consideration the needs of
the grassroots peoples of recipient
countries more; it needs to better
assess the socio-economic, cultural,
and political dynamics of those
societies; it needs to reduce its
reliance on technical and economic
solutions to political problems ; and,
it needs to avoid the imposition of a
one-size-fits-all remedies and its
best practices which do not match
the reality on the ground in
recipient societies.