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European External Action: The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya - Critical Geopolitics Veit Bachmann New edition
European External Action: The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya - Critical Geopolitics
Veit Bachmann
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.
Includes 10 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 11, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781472423153 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 230 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 14 mm · 498 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Ingram, Dr. Alan |
| Series Editor | Kuus, Assoc. Prof. Merje |
| Series Editor | Woon, Asst Proffesor Chih Yuan |
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