Kuus Geopolitics and Expertise

Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-29174-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union.
* Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice
* Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven years
* Focuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniform
* Moves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuus, Merje

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction: The Crown Jewel 1
1 The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe 12
Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space; EmbodiedEuropes
2 Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields 32
Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields; "The work ofreciprocal elucidation"
3 Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place 61
Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; ThePolitical and the Technical - and the Social
4 Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 2786
European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors: Negotiating theNational; The Group for Which There is no Term: The New MemberStates
5 Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization112
A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise in the EuropeanQuarter; "Most people just want to do what they are told"
6 Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter133
Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites"; "In the thirddegree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; Shifts andSpirals
7 Political Geographies of Expertise 171
Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; "Things areevolving"; Managing Difference
Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge 195
References 209
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Merje Kuus is Associate Professor of Geography at theUniversity of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses onpolitical geography and transnational policy processes. She is theauthor of Geopolitics Reframed: Security and Identity inEurope's Eastern Enlargement (2007) and co-editor of theAshgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (2013).She has also written on security narratives, intellectuals ofstatecraft, the idea of Europe, and transnational diplomaticpractice.