From Coherence to Coheritization
| dc.contributor.advisor | Eimer, T.R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schmitz, Luuk | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-05-15 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Over the past decade, EU external policy has become increasingly entangled by the notion of policy coherence. Previously ‘siloed’ policy areas such as trade, agriculture, security, and development are increasingly approached as challenges that can only be effectively resolved by addressing their positive and negative interlinkages. While the European Commission is at times critical of the incoherencies that arise out of these interlinked policy areas, it also calls to harness synergies between them. Paradoxically, this approach to policy coherence thus both criticizes and embraces the existing structure of global capitalism. This thesis argues that the Commission’s ambivalent approach to its external policy can be best explained by combining insights from speech act theory and cultural political economy. Agents and structures interact in a perpetual cycle of sense- and meaning-making (semiosis). Speech acts are a way to express, reinforce, or change linguistic and extra-linguistic structures. By that, they have a strong impact on the discursive realm, the institutional structure of the debate and the participation chances of political actors. Through a combination of case study, social network analysis, and interviews, the thesis suggests to understand the creation of policy coherence as a speech act, by which the European Commission (re-)defines itself in relation to less industrialized countries, while at the same time restructuring the discursive and institutional playing field of the European decisionmaking on external policies. Keywords: Policy Coherence, PCD, speech act, cultural political economy, development aid, DG DEVCO, semiosis. III | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/5669 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | International Political Economy | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Master Political Science | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | en_US |
| dc.title | From Coherence to Coheritization | en_US |
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