Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy

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Description

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

About the Author

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.

Series

RGS-IBG Book Series

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