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The European External Action Service

European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. David Spence

    1. European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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  2. Jozef Bátora

    1. Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Part of the book series: The European Union in International Affairs (EUIA)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: The EEAS as a Catalyst of Diplomatic Innovation

    1. Introduction: The EEAS as a Catalyst of Diplomatic Innovation

      • Jozef Bátora, David Spence
      Pages 1-16

  3. Theorising the EU’s Diplomatic Service: Rational Player or Social Body?

    1. Theorising the EU’s Diplomatic Service: Rational Player or Social Body?

      • Rebecca Adler-Nissen
      Pages 17-40

  4. The New Setting of EU Diplomacy: Problems and Prospects for the European External Action Service

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. The EEAS and Its Epistemic Communities: The Challenges of Diplomatic Hybridism

      • David Spence
      Pages 43-64

    3. A Hybrid Service: Organising Efficient EU Foreign Policy

      • Cesare Onestini
      Pages 65-86

    4. The High Representative of the Union: The Quest for Leadership in EU Foreign Policy

      • Niklas Helwig
      Pages 87-104

    5. The Advance of a European Executive Order in Foreign Policy? Recruitment Practices in the European External Action Service

      • Zuzana Murdoch, Jarle Trondal
      Pages 105-122

    6. The EEAS, EU External Assistance and Development Aid: Institutional Dissonance or Inter-service Harmony?

      • Isabelle Tannous
      Pages 123-139

    7. Democratic Accountability and EU Governance: The EEAS and the Role of the European Parliament

      • Kolja Raube
      Pages 140-156

  5. The EEAS and International Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Unus inter plures? The EEAS, the Vienna Convention and International Diplomatic Practice

      • Jan Wouters, Sanderijn Duquet
      Pages 159-174

    3. EU Law and the EEAS: Of Complex Competences and Constitutional Consequences

      • Geert De Baere, Ramses A. Wessel
      Pages 175-191

  6. Effective Multilateralism: EU Delegations to International Organisations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. The EU Delegation in New York: A Debut of High Political Drama

      • Katie Verlin Laatikainen
      Pages 195-218

    3. From the Convention to Lisbon: External Competence and the Uneasy Transition for Geneva Delegations

      • David Spence
      Pages 219-240

    4. Effective Multilateralism After Lisbon: The Added Value of the EEAS and the EU Delegation in Vienna

      • Lars-Erik Lundin
      Pages 241-253

  7. Bilateralism and European Diplomatic Capacity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. National Adaptation and Survival in a Changing European Diplomacy

      • Rosa Balfour, Kristi Raik
      Pages 257-273

    3. An Upgraded EU Delegation in a Reinforced System of European Diplomatic Coordination: Insights from Washington

      • Heidi Maurer
      Pages 274-287
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This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.

Reviews

“All chapters are written by well known scholars who have followed the Service since its inception. … Given the style and level of detail, the book will certainly be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students who want to know more about the creation of the EEAS and possible developments, but above all about what the EEAS is today.” (Lorenzo Vai, The International Spectator, Vol. 52 (4), 2017)

“The book covers the whole gamut of the EEAS’s activities, starting from its institutional position within the EU framework and touching upon the legal implications of its evolution, its role in multilateral forums, its bilateral activities and its recruitment and training practices. … This book is therefore an essential and illuminating reading for any scholar willing to explore the future developments of the EEAS.” (Marco Rossi, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 54 (6), 2016)

"Diplomacy at all levels is experiencing fundamental challenges as it responds to changing global, regional and national environments. As the contributors to this book clearly demonstrate, the development of the EEAS after the Lisbon Treaty provides a significant and fascinating instance of diplomatic change and adaptation. The careful blending of academic and practitioner perspectives will prove invaluable to those concerned with the transformation of diplomacy generally as well as the development of the processes and structures associated with EU foreign policy." - Brian Hocking, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, Loughborough University, UK

"The wide range of academic and practical experience in this comprehensive examination of the EEAS makes an important contribution to understanding its creation, organisation, principles and practice. This is all the more timely as the EEAS faces challenges abroad and also at home from member states' willingness to give the supportessential for an effective EU foreign and security policy." - Sir Brian Crowe, former Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the European Union (General Secretariat)

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    David Spence

  • Department of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jozef Bátora

About the editors

Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Frauke Austermann, is Lecturer and Head of Campus at the International School of Management, Cologne, and Research Associate at ESSCA School of Management, LUNAM University, France Rosa Balfour, Director, Europe in the World, European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels, Belgium Jozef Bátora, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of European Studies and International Relations at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University, USA Geert De Baere, Assistant Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Faculty of Law, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium Simon Duke, Professor, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands Sanderijn Duquet, Fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO),Belgium Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín, Associate Professor in Politics and Public Administration, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Bruno Hanses, EU official with extensive experience of European foreign and security policy Niklas Helwig, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland Ana E. Juncos, Lecturer in European Politics at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK Katie Verlin Laatikainen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University, New York, USA Lars Erik Lundin, Distinguished Associate Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden Heidi Maurer, Assistant Professor, European Studies at the Department of Politics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Frédéric Mérand, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of CÉRIUM, the University of Montreal Centre for International Studies, Canada Zuzana Murdoch,Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany Tereza Novotná, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Cesare Onestini, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to India Karolina Pomorska, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Kristi Raik, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and Adjunct Professor, University of Turku, Finland Kolja Raube, Senior Researcher, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Belgium David Spence, Visiting Fellow, European Institute of the London School of Economics, UK Isabelle Tannous, Senior Information Research Specialist, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany Jarle Trondal, Professor of Public Administration, University of Agder, Norway Ramses A. Wessel, Professor of International and European Institutional Law and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente, The Netherlands Alison Weston, Head of Division with the Operations Directorate of the EU Military Staff, European External Action Service Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies Institute for International Law, KU Leuven, Belgium

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