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

TY - JOUR

T1 - How to Reflexively Decentre EU Foreign Policy: Dissonance and Contrapuntal Reconstruction in Migration, Religious and Neighbourhood Governance

AU - Wolff, Sarah

AU - Gazsi, David

AU - Huber, Daniela

AU - Fisher‐onar, Nora

N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the participants to the UACES-Queen Mary workshop on Decentring EU Foreign Policy organized in Paris in 2019 with support from the General Research Fund of the School of Politics and International Relations of Queen Mary University of London and of the University Studies Association for Contemporary European Studies, as well as to Heidi Maurer our discussant at the ECPR SGEU 2021 Conference. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2022/11

Y1 - 2022/11

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

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U2 - 10.1111/jcms.13335

DO - 10.1111/jcms.13335

M3 - Article

SN - 0021-9886

VL - 60

SP - 1611

EP - 1628

JO - JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES

JF - JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES

IS - 6

ER -