Merje Kuus

Gebundenes Buch

Geopolitics and Expertise

Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• RGS-IBG Book Series
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781118291757
• ISBN-10: 1118291751
• Artikelnr.: 40133588

Rezensionen

'This book transcends the now problematic divide between representational and practical approaches to understanding geopolitical relations. More specifically, much research on the EU tends to focus more on the formal workings of the institutions and rarely penetrates the corridors of power to consider what actually happens within the bureaucracy itself. The book is to be welcomed as a contribution to theoretical debate in human geography and as a significant contribution to EU Studies.'
--John Agnew, UCLA

'In contrast to the oceans of generalization about the European Union, here is a high-resolution study of the balance of interests and power based on years of face-to-face interactions with diplomats and Eurocrats who inhabit Brussels' European Quarter.'
--James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore