This article addresses the question of how the EU exercises power in international politics and, in particular, whether or not there is anything distinctive about the ways in which it does so. Taking a relational approach to power, where the focus is on practical knowledge and perceptions of self and other, the paper departs from the assumption that such a question has to be evaluated in specific settings. Extrapolating from the EU’s attempt to influence outcomes in Tunisia and Morocco following the Arab Spring, this paper proposes that the power of ambiguity captures some of the distinctiveness of the EU as a global actor. The paper highlights the ambiguity of what the EU is in the eyes of others, which opens up avenues for exercising power that others lack, not necessarily in accordance with a well-defined agenda, but understood as the production of effects in delimited settings.

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暧昧的力量？欧盟如何在摩洛哥和突尼斯行使权力的关系方法

本文讨论了欧盟如何在国际政治中行使权力的问题，特别是它的行使方式是否有任何独特之处。对权力采取关系方法，重点是实践知识和对自我和他人的看法，本文背离了这样一个假设，即必须在特定环境中评估这样的问题。根据欧盟在阿拉伯之春之后试图影响突尼斯和摩洛哥的结果，本文提出，模糊性的力量体现了欧盟作为全球参与者的一些独特性。这篇论文强调了欧盟在其他人眼中的模糊性，这为行使其他人缺乏的权力开辟了途径，不一定按照明确的议程，