05017cam a2200625Ma 4500 ocn867318920 OCoLC 20171031133844.0 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 140104s2013 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781118291719 (electronic bk.) 1118291719 (electronic bk.) 9781118291740 1118291743 DEBBG BV043396455 DEBSZ 449406601 NZ1 15495659 (OCoLC)867318920 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCO IDEBK DG1 OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCF DEBSZ OCLCO DEBBG OCLCQ OCLCO e------ MAIN JC359 .K384 2013 337.5104 Kuus, Merje. Geopolitics and expertise : knowledge and authority in European diplomacy / Merje Kuus. [electronic resource] Chichester : Wiley, 2013. 1 online resource (240 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier RGS-IBG Book Series Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Print version record. Geopolitics Europe. Diplomacy History 20th century. Diplomacy History 21st century. Geopolitics 20th century. Geopolitics 21st century. Diplomatic relations. fast (OCoLC)fst01907412 Geopolitics. fast (OCoLC)fst00941045 European Union countries Foreign relations. Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064 Europe European Union countries. fast (OCoLC)fst01269470 Electronic books. Print version: Kuus, Merje. Geopolitics and Expertise : Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy. Hoboken : Wiley, ©2013 9781118291702 RGS-IBG book series. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118291719 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 207184 207184