From Political Liberalization to Geopolitical Turn (Evolution of the EU’S Discourse, and the Link between the Normative and the Material)
Journal: World Economy and International Relations
Year: 2022

The article explores the geopolitical turn in the European Union’s policy, realized through two new and synonymous concepts in the EU’s official discourse – those of strategic sovereignty and strategic autonomy. The author demonstrates that these concepts do not imply a radical turn to pragmatism and materiality. Rather it is exposed that Brussels’ neoliberal paradigm has always presupposed the link between neoliberal normativity (liberal democracy of the Western type) and materiality (which inc