Veit Bachmann

European External Action

The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

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Produktbeschreibung

European External Action provides a critical assessment of the practice of EU diplomacy in a key site of Africa-European relations and the global development industry - the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. It analyses how the EU positions itself through the European External Action Service (EEAS) and how it is perceived as a collective geopolitical actor. The book thus to wider debates on the EU's role as a global and development actor as well as providing novel insights into the making of external agency in and through EU diplomacy. It will be an illuminating read for those in Geography, International Relations, European Studies, Development Studies and Political Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781472423153
• ISBN-10: 1472423151
• Artikelnr.: 45342321

Autorenporträt

Veit Bachmann is Director of the EuroGaps research group that examines external relations and external perceptions of the EU in sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region based in the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-Universitÿt Frankfurt am Main, Germany. More generally, his research interests are in political geography, (critical) geopolitics, European studies and global North-South relations with a focus on the international identity and role of the EU as a global and development actor.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: an emerging EU diplomacy? Part One External
Relations at a Critical Moment: Instruments of conduct of European external
relations; European geopolitical discourse and the EU as a 'model' in times
of crisis; External dimensions of Europeanisation and regulated spaces of
interaction; An institutional ethnography of the sites of diplomatic
conduct in Nairobi; Methodological remarks: data acquisition in the
networked places of EU diplomacy in Nairobi. Part Two The Service in Action
- Establishing Collective Diplomacy in Nairobi: Positioning collective
Europe abroad: operating EU diplomacy; Perceiving collective Europe abroad:
interaction with the 'partners'; What should the EU do? Expectations of the
EU as a geopolitical actor; The EU's global role: what happened to the
model?; Conclusion: a less global and a more European Union? References;
Index.