The Contested Diplomacy of the European External Action Service: Inception, Establishment and Consolidation

ISBN-13: 9780367592219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Jost-Henrik Morgenstern-Pomorski

Opis

This book explains why the EEAS, despite being hailed as a milestone in integration in Europe’s foreign policy, has fallen short of the mark. It does so by enlisting American institutionalist approaches to European questions of institutional creation, bureaucratic organisations and change.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Constructing the EU Diplomatic Service  2. The Long Road to EU Diplomatic Capacities  3. Bureaucratic Change in EU Foreign Policy  4. The Shape of Things to Come: The Inception of the European External Action Service  5. Navigating the ‘Politics of Eurocratic Structure’: The Establishment of the European External Action Service  6. Bureaucracy, Competition, and Control: The Consolidation of the European External Action Service  7. Sailing on a Second Wind? Trajectories of Consolidation for the European External Action Service  8. Conclusion: Towards a European Foreign Ministry?

O autorze

Jost-Henrik Morgenstern-Pomorski is a Lecturer in Political Science with a special focus on European and American politics at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He was awarded a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher position at Loughborough University, UK, and was a visiting PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK.