Veit Bachmann

European External Action (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

• Format: ePub

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 its newly established diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service (EEAS), and how it is perceived as a collective geopolitical actor by its external cooperation partners. Going beyond existing studies on EU policy making in Brussels and African-European relations more generally, this book explores in a novel way the conduct of external relations and perceptions of the EU - abroad. Based on institutional ethnography within the EU Delegation in Nairobi and research affiliation with the University of Nairobi, as well as interviews with leading individuals of Kenyan-European interaction, it analyses the practices, processes and perceptions through which EU diplomacy is enacted and realised in a strategic node of global North-South relations. In light of the EU's claim as a key partner for developing countries and its ambition to be a major player in global politics, European External Action thereby speaks not only to wider debates on the EU's role as a global and development actor, but also provides new insights in the internal dynamics and the making of external agency in and through EU diplomacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317139683
• Artikelnr.: 47903571

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.