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
Innehållsförteckning
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
Om författaren
Merje Kuus is Associate Professor of Geography at the
University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on
political geography and transnational policy processes. She is the
author of Geopolitics Reframed: Security and Identity in
Europe’s Eastern Enlargement (2007) and co-editor of the
Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (2013).
She has also written on security narratives, intellectuals of
statecraft, the idea of Europe, and transnational diplomatic
practice.
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