The roundtable brings together four authors, and a former journal editor, from the recent JCMS 20th Anniversary Symposium and forthcoming Cooperation and Conflict Anniversary Special Issue to discuss: What does the Arrival of planetary politics tell us about the European Union and normative power in the planetary organic crisis?

Ian Manners provides a reflection and prospective intervention on the development of normative power and thinking through the EU in the rest of the century of planetary organic crisis. Roberta Guerrina (with Maxine David and Katharine Wright) argues for envisioning a nakedly normative feminist (re)imagination of planetary politics in the context of the normative power approach. Ana Juncos (with Simon Pratt) takes a pragmatist approach to the study of resilience and evolution in planetary organic crisis in order to understand the relationship between an organism (the EU) and its environment (the planet) examining the symbiotic relationship between EU foreign and security policy, democratic challenges, and the environment of planetary politics. Petra Debuscher sets out how integrating intersectional justice strengthens the normative power approach’s ability to diagnose inequalities and guide transformative action by highlighting how overlapping systems of oppression—such as race, class, and gender—shape vulnerability to environmental degradation and economic exploitation.

The discussant and former JCMS editor, Richard Whitman, provide a reflection on normative power and the EU in planetary politics during the planetary organic crisis within the context of the conference theme of EU resilience and transformation.