Normative Power vs. National Interests in the Policy-Making Process of the EU Relating to Refugee Crisis:
Case Study of EU-Turkey Deal
Keywords:
Normative Power, European Union, The EU-Turkey Deal, National Interest, NormsAbstract
‘Normative Power’ is one of the most important powers of European Union. With a hope for the existing and new norms to be accepted by its members and international actors. Its mission is to shape conceptual, and to build rules and ideas of ‘the common goods.’ Through the study of refugee crisis in Europe, norms are diffused thanks to procedural diffusion, which is where European Union’s organs and institutions play a great role. The EU-Turkey deal was made and hoped to tackle the refugee problems. It comes up with various measures, such as returning of irregular migrants, control of migration, and one-to-one policy. This is a significant start from two cores international actors to deal with transborder problems. Unfortunately, the deal is not the best one possible. Some crucial problems still occur; reluctant of Turkey towards the EU, an unsuccessful settlement of norms, an unbinding agreement, a damaged portray of NPE and the most important one, harms towards refugees and their rights. These failures combined with Intergovernmentalism theory help us to explore that norms are, however, not the main priority of any policy, but a national interest. European Union is used by its members to express their interests, which on another hand can be interpreted that norms has not been settled even within the Union itself.
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