title: European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis
abstract: The normative power approach (NPA) consists of normative, explanatory, and practical theory in understanding European integration and crises of the European Union (EU). In terms of the normative theory, the NPA works within Critical Social Theory, with its understanding of ideological common sense and immanent critiques of European integration. In the context of perceived global crises such as the environment, the economy, and changing ‘great power’ relations, European communion encourages a bro