How to Reflexively Decentre EU Foreign Policy: Dissonance and Contrapuntal Reconstruction in Migration, Religious and Neighbourhood Governance

This article develops a timely new model for EU foreign policy by advancing the call for a ‘decentring agenda’, focused on the challenge of inclusive ‘reconstruction’. It does so by first staking out an ontological space at the intersection of empirical multiplexity and normative pluriversality. Wit...

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Published in:Journal of common market studies 2022-11, Vol.60 (6), p.1611-1628
Main Authors: Wolff, Sarah, Gazsi, David, Huber, Daniela, Fisher‐Onar, Nora
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
decentring
Empowerment
EU foreign policy
European Neighbourhood Policy
Foreign policy
Governance
Local government
Migration
Mutuality
Neighborhoods
Policy making
postcolonialism
religion
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Summary:This article develops a timely new model for EU foreign policy by advancing the call for a ‘decentring agenda’, focused on the challenge of inclusive ‘reconstruction’. It does so by first staking out an ontological space at the intersection of empirical multiplexity and normative pluriversality. Within this space, it proposes an ethically informed methodological tool: the contrapuntal negotiation of dissonant perspectives on common governance challenges. It then suggests ways to reconstruct analytical and policy‐making processes and outcomes on the basis of mutuality and local empowerment. Using three scales of ‘contrapuntality’ (micro, meso and macro) to read key empirical sites at the intersection of the EU's internal and external policies (migration, religious and neighbourhood governance), it argues that by decentring in these and further arenas, the EU can seek to become a more reflexive global actor in sync with the ethical and practical demands of our multiplex world.
ISSN:0021-9886
1468-5965
DOI:10.1111/jcms.13335