dc.contributor.author
Hellquist, Elin
dc.date.accessioned
2019-09-27T12:48:20Z
dc.date.available
2019-09-27T12:48:20Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25668
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25432
dc.description.abstract
The European Union (EU) is one of the world’s most active imposers of foreign policy sanctions. By contrast, the EU has never used formal political sanctions against a member. Why does the EU favour sanctions as an instrument to deal with norm violations abroad, but not at home? The article argues that an understanding of sanctions as ostracism helps illuminate this discrepancy. Far from technical instruments that can be made to ‘work’ through improved design, sanctions are social instruments that operate through selective exclusion. An in-depth scrutiny of public justifications from the European institutions and individual politicians shows that both at home and abroad sanctions are strongly associated with ostracising attributes. However, whereas practical and symbolic distance-taking from the target is core for foreign policy sanctions, at home, the same ostracising properties run against the EU’s traditional insistence on resolving disagreements through rational dialogue.
en
dc.format.extent
27 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
European Union
en
dc.subject
public justifications
en
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Ostracism and the EU’s contradictory approach to sanctions at home and abroad
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1080/13569775.2018.1553083
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Contemporary Politics
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
393
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
418
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
25
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2018.1553083
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
1356-9775
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1469-3631
refubium.resourceType.provider
WoS-Alert