Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy

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

Publication Date: March 2014