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Human rights and democracy at the heart of the EU’S foreign policy?: An assessment of the EU’s comprehensive approach to human rights and democratization
The commitment to the promotion of human rights and democratization as the Union's common values and the request to develop comprehensive approaches in foreign policy are linked to two main ideas that have dominated the academic debate. One is the consideration of the European Union (EU) as a normative power, that is, a power that acts by its values and seeks to externalize its norms in the field of human rights. The other is that the EU as an actor is unable to react rapidly to international events and, hence, incapable of strategic