A European Union ‘water diplomacy’? : frames of water in EU external action

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dc.contributor.authorSCHUNZ, Simon
dc.contributor.authorTOPCUOGLU, Ediz Bener
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-27T15:20:22Z
dc.date.available2023-11-27T15:20:22Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 23 November 2023en
dc.description.abstractIn 2013, the European Union (EU) formulated its ambition to develop a ‘water diplomacy’. Subsequently, it attempted to put this aspiration into practice, notably through various Council Conclusions. Despite this activity, the EU’s evolution as a ‘water diplomat’ remains underexplored. To address this gap, this article examines the EU’s understanding of ‘water diplomacy’ by conducting a comprehensive discourse analysis of its framing of water as an object of diplomacy and the resulting diplomatic approaches. The analysis of key EU documents, triangulated through interviews with policy-makers, reveals that several water frames currently intersect, resulting in a multifaceted EU external water action comprising both a narrow and a broad understanding of water diplomacy. Following an explanation of this finding focusing on the policy entrepreneurship of intra-EU water diplomacy stakeholders, the article concludes by discussing its implications for the academic study and political practice of water diplomacy within and beyond the EU.en
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dc.identifier.citationThe Hague journal of diplomacy, 2024, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 340-375en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/1871191x-bja10179
dc.identifier.endpage375
dc.identifier.issn1871-1901
dc.identifier.issn1871-191X
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage340
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76105
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherBrill Nijhoffen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Hague journal of diplomacyen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleA European Union ‘water diplomacy’? : frames of water in EU external actionen
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