LEADER 04645nam 2200649 450 001 9910815247103321 005 20240103091039.0 010 $a1-118-29171-9 010 $a1-118-29174-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001180172 035 $a(EBL)1584997 035 $a(OCoLC)874147106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1584997 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1584997 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10826698 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL560286 035 $a(OCoLC)867318920 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001180172 100 $a20140128h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGeopolitics and expertise $eknowledge and authority in European diplomacy /$fMerje Kuus 210 1$aMalden, Massachusetts :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 0 $aRGS-IBG book series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-118-29170-0 311 0 $a1-306-29035-X 311 0 $a9781118291757 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGeopolitics 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 327 $aHabitus and the transnational Europe; "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 327 $aCurved Mirrors: Negotiating the National The 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" 327 $aCosmopolitan 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; References; Index 330 $aGeopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical study, involving over 100 interviews with policy professionals over seven years Focuses on the qualitative and contextual, rather than the quantitative and uniform Moves beyond traditional political science to blend human geography, international relations, anthropology, and sociology 410 0$aRGS-IBG Book Series 606 $aDiplomacy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDiplomacy$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aGeopolitics$y20th century 606 $aGeopolitics$y21st century 615 0$aDiplomacy$xHistory 615 0$aDiplomacy$xHistory 615 0$aGeopolitics 615 0$aGeopolitics 676 $a327.0904 700 $aKuus$b Merje$0275846 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815247103321 996 $aGeopolitics and expertise$91397843 997 $aUNINA