Hegemony in the age of globalisation and governance by the european neighbourhood policy : is the EU becoming an informal hegemon in the Maghreb by means of the ENP?

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Hegemony refers to the ultimate form of dominance over the international system as well as over actors operating in the system. Yet, the pressures of globalisation over the state as it used to be the sole legitimate authority and over the system necessitated a redefinition of old concepts. In this context, the conceptualisation of neoliberal hegemony referring to the global domination of neoliberal ideology divorced hegemony from the agent as its exerciser and defined hegemony as the dominance of values. Informal hegemony, as the novel concept created with this thesis, attempts to bring in the agent to the definition of the term. As a concept defined within the neoliberal system, informal hegemony refers to regional domination of an actor over necessary power structures by effective external governance mechanisms. Accordingly, effectiveness of a governance mechanism is measured by the degree of power it grants to its beholder over the structures of IPE in a region. In this context, an analysis of the degree of power that the ENP grants to the EU in the Maghreb demonstrates that, -although in varying degrees - the regulatory convergence taking place in the Maghreb countries towards the EU acquis generated a process to transform the EU into an informal hegemon via the ENP in the region.
European Union, European Union countries, International relations.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12616472/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22866
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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O. Bülbül, “Hegemony in the age of globalisation and governance by the european neighbourhood policy : is the EU becoming an informal hegemon in the Maghreb by means of the ENP? ,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.
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