The Impact Of The Eu's Normative Diplomacy In The Middle East

International system has been in the transition since the cold war came to an end. Established powers relatively decline as new powers emerging. Character of pluralistic is added in the international system. European Union developed as the largest economic entity and a global actor, emerged as a major player within international system and a centre of powers.Norms are produced by interaction among units of international system, and composed of a set of concept and rules. Normative theory emphasizes that once the norms are recognized by units of the international system, they will become a kind of preference strength, which boosts the rebirth of the code of conduct of international actors, and shapes the transformation tendency of international system. EU has created necessary legal, institutional and procedural instruments to produce its own special regulative, executive, as well as restraining power during its integration process. This normative power is essential in the EU value-building. Many states in other regions around the world are attracted by EU's norms, and take them as standards and models for their own development.EU's normative power not only constrains and respects member states with its ethical and social development criteria, but also extends into its external relations when managing the international affairs. The principal explanations for this allegedly 'normative' diplomacy have focused on the normative nature and effects on international system and other actors. In the search for standards of normative diplomacy, we will consider three dimensions: what an actor wants (its goals), how it acts (the deployment of its policy means) and what it achieves (its impact). Three principal conditioning factors for Normative Diplomacy include domestic political climate, capability and international conditions.Bacelona Process aims at promoting social-economic development on the southeast part of the Mediterranean region. Multilateralism is the essential charecter of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership framework. The normative dimensions of EU policy on the Mediterranean give rise to a number of dilemmas and challenges. EU's endeavours to enhance relations with southern partners point to the pursuit of a dual strategy: the identification of the EU as a "normative power" and the attainment of political and economic interests. The challenges of this pursuit may in turn explain some of the main dilemmas counteracting EU-Mediterranean relations.European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is normative bilateral partnership with differentiated Action Plans with individual partner states. ENP formulates different policy regimes in addressing different challenges which individual state faces, and emphasizes partner states' domestic reform in accordance with EU norms. Condition and Socialization are the two major instruments of ENP. Therefore, ENP is a kind of operational foreign policy token.EU's contribution to the Middle East Peace Process is the process that EU has brought into play its general advantage to become a regulating power in the external relations. EU would like to be a "player" instead of a "payer" in the international community, a coordinator which the Arabic countries accept in general. However, EU finds it difficult to balance stances and policies towards Israel and Palestine. The construction of normative power could not co-exist harmoniously with the settlement of Middle East conflict.EU's normative approach does contribute to the bilateral, multilateral, regional and international affairs. However, the unbalance between justice and effectiveness would be an obstacle to EU normative diplomacy. EU as a normative power grows in reviewing its experiences. During current international economic crisis, the shift of global power and transformation of international system is accelerating. EU insists on innovation and reform, constructing normative power, seizing the moral high frontier, playing a normative role in international system.