EU Foreign and Security Policy through the Lens of Practice Theory: bridging the gap between policy rhetoric and field-reality in the study of the EU

我的博士研究旨在建立一个分析框架，能够全面评估欧盟外交和安全行动的实践，寻求摆脱传统的大理论。布迪厄的行为学的基础上，这个框架强调的重要性，注重实践的机构和结构之间的交织元素。这样一个重点将使作者能够连贯地回答研究问题，即欧盟的政策言论和南部邻国的实际做法之间是否存在根本的不对称。这项工作通过围绕两个相互关联的问题来解决研究问题。首先，在规范和价值观投射的修辞背后，欧盟是否正在构建一个必须以不对称的方式遵守其裁决的劣等他者。在这方面，研究试图了解这种修辞是如何被欧盟和非欧盟从业者话语合法化的;这种修辞中的逻辑可能直接或间接地有利于社会差距和资本集中的现象。第二，地方参与，共同所有权和伙伴关系在实践中是否相互矛盾，因为这些都是为了隐藏一个等级制度，其中邻国不是平等的参与者，而是因为嵌入在欧盟外交政策实践中的处置逻辑而从属于欧盟

My doctoral research seeks to forge an analytical framework able to comprehensively appraise the praxis of the European Union's foreign and security action, seeking to move away from conventional grand theories. Building upon Bourdieu's praxeology, this framework underlines the importance of a focus on practice as the intertwining element between agency and structure. Such a focus would allow the author to coherently answer the research question of whether or not there is a fundamental asymmetry between the EU policy rhetoric and the actual practices on the field(s) in the Southern neighborhood. The work addresses the research question by revolving around two interrelated issues. First, whether behind the rhetoric of norms and values projection the EU is constructing an inferior Other that must comply with its ruling in an asymmetrical manner. In this regard, the research attempts to understand the way this rhetoric is discursively legitimized by both EU and non- EU practitioners; the ways the logics embedded in this rhetoric might directly or indirectly favour phenomena of social disparities and concentrations of capital. Second, whether local participation, joint ownership and partnerships are a contradiction in practice, as these rather serve to hide a hierarchy wherein the neighbors are not equal participants, but subaltern to the EU because of the dispositional logics embedded in the foreign policy practices of the Union