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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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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| Series: | RGS-IBG book series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.