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This paper examines the foreign policy behavior of the EU vis-à-vis China, India, Russia and the US. The authors detail how a normative foreign policy is rigorously defined as one that is normative according to the goals set, the means employed and the results obtained. The paper explores eight actual case examples of foreign policy behavior, selected in order to illustrate four paradigms of foreign policy behavior, namely normative policy, realpolitik, imperialistic policy and the status quo.