Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique
本文批判了欧盟作为规范性力量在非洲-欧盟关系中的角色，认为这是一种新康德主义、欧洲中心的话语，通过福柯的知识概念化揭示其道德家长制本质，并指出泛非区域化与规范性力量欧洲的结合导致了对欧洲规范在非洲适用的过度乐观。
Abstract The debate on NPE (Normative Power Europe) has flourished for more than a decade. NPE has shaped Africa–EU relations considerably, especially since the founding of the AU (African Union). Yet while the EU aspires to be a post‐imperial, normative power, this postcolonial critique suggests NPE is a neo‐Kantian, Eurocentric discourse that reinvigorates an outdated European moral paternalism. The article explores the role of NPE in Africa–EU relations through a Foucauldian conceptualization of knowledge in EU foreign policy, and insists particularly on how pan‐African regionalization and NPE led to unwarranted optimism about deploying European norms in Africa. To the contrary, a decolonial perspective reveals that AU–EU inter‐regional structural and organizational convergence enchains only frail normative convergence, which will diminish as the pan‐African project unfolds further.