Geopolitics and expertise : knowledge and authority in European diplomacy /

"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 in...

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Main Author: Kuus, Merje (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Series:RGS-IBG book series.
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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: 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; Embodied Europes 2 Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields 32 Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields; "The work of reciprocal elucidation" 3 Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place 61 Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; The Political and the Technical -- and the Social 4 Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 27 86 European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors: Negotiating the National; The Group for Which There is no Term: The New Member States 5 Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization 112 A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise in the European Quarter; "Most people just want to do what they are told" 6 Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter 133 Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites"; "In the third degree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; Shifts and Spirals 7 Political Geographies of Expertise 171 Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; "Things are evolving"; Managing Difference Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge 195 References 209 Index 225 . 
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