欧盟新中亚战略中的规范性外交及其软化态势

A Softening Tendency of the EU's Normative Foreign Policy in Its New Strategy towards Central Asia

作为规范性力量的欧盟在2007年宣布的新中亚战略中将人权、法治、善治和民主等规范性目标置于优先地位,并通过运用一系列经济援助型和政治外交型政策工具,试图引导中亚国家的政治经济转型,以输出欧盟的价值和制度。但是欧盟内部在中亚的利益偏好和政策立场存在严重分歧,在各种内外因素的掣肘下,其对规范性目标的追求日益让位于物质性利益,从而在规范性外交上出现了不断软化立场的态势。

As a normative power,the EU has prioritized such targets as human rights,rule of law,good governance and democracy in its new strategy towards Central Asia since 2007. In order to export its own values and institutions,the EU intends to lead the political and economic transformation of the Central Asian countries by use of economic assistance and political diplomacy, the two major types of the EU' s foreign policy instruments. However, the EU,s pursuit of normative objectives in Central Asia has increasingly given way to material interests, due to the substantial divergences of interest preferences and policy positions among the member states. It appears that the EU has been softening its normative foreign policy as a result of the constraints from a variety of factors.