Only when the EU changed its strategy towards ‘shared leadership’, ‘climate diplomacy’ & ‘orchestration’ was it able to regain its influence & reinvent its normative power for the age of the ‘planetary organic crisis’.

I argue that the EU ran into problems because it focused too long on policies in line with justice as impartiality & neglected mutual recognition/non-domination. By strengthening binding mitigation provisions & ‘leading by example’, it failed to recognize alternative pathways towards climate action

Based on a conception of global justice consisting of ‘non-domination’, ‘impartiality’ and ‘mutual recognition’ in combination with the notion of orchestration, I explore the changing ethical foundations of the EU’s normative power between the 1980s and 2015.

The European Union has long presented itself as a key actor when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and has been called a climate leader or ‘green normative power’. At the same time, it has encountered increased contestation and has had considerable problems in exercising its normative power

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