Geopolitics and expertise : knowledge and authority in European diplomacy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kuus, Merje
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester : Wiley, 2013.
• Σειρά: RGS-IBG book series.
• Θέματα: Geopolitics > Europe.; Diplomacy > History > 20th century.; Diplomacy > History > 21st century.; Geopolitics > 20th century.; Geopolitics > 21st century.; Diplomatic relations.; Geopolitics.; European Union countries > Foreign relations.; Europe.; Europe > European Union countries.; Electronic books.

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 intervi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority : in European Diplomacy; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Crown Jewel; "Evaporative things"; Contexts and Conversations; The Political, the Geographical, and the Social: A Roadmap of the Argument; Notes; Chapter One The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe; Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space; Borderless Europe?; Geopolitics renascent; Embodied Europes; Notes; Chapter Two Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields; Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields.
• Habitus and the transnationalEurope; "The work of reciprocal elucidation"; Interviewing in practice; Notes; Chapter Three Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place; Planet Brussels; The square kilometre; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals; Between cosmopolitanism and corporatism; Recruitment and working conditions; The quiet bureaucracy: The European Commission; The Political and the Technical
• and the Social; "A social, network-like thing"; On getting blooded; Notes; Chapter Four Transnational Diplomats: Representing Europe in EU 27; European External Action Service.
• Curved Mirrors: Negotiating the NationalThe Group for Which There is no Term: The New Member States; Entering Europe; Recruitment; Learning the networks; Being a eurocrat; Notes; Chapter Five Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization; A New Object of Knowledge; The birth of the neighbourhood; Fields of Expertise in the European Quarter; Man on a bicycle; The Brussels bubble; "Most people just want to do what they are told"; Powers of contextualization; Notes; Chapter Six Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the European Quarter; Symbolic Capital; "We are dealing with elites."
• Cosmopolitan Brussels"Natural reflex"; "In the third degree of depth"; "An urbane, subtle approach"; The big unsaid: money; La bella figura; Learning ease; Shifts and Spirals; Notes; Chapter Seven Political Geographies of Expertise; Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market; Learning and teaching; "Things are evolving"; Adaptation; The uses of history; Managing Difference; Notes; Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge; Spaces and Agents of Bureaucratic Knowledge; Less is More; Notes.