The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia

The European Union is a transformational polity challenging diplomacy as an institutionalized order. This book reviews the conceptual origins of the EU's diplomatic apparatus and explains its institutional history, whilst raising key questions about the new organization of foreign policy and diplomacy beyond individual European states. It reviews the nature of state-level adaptation to wider management and administrative trends and analyses the legal and practical evolution of the EU's 'European External Action Service'. The book addresses the far reaching implications of all these issues for the 'Westphalian' diplomatic order, and 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. Overall, the book provides the most comprehensive and most profound set of analyses to date of the change dynamics in the EU's diplomatic order towards post-Westphalian patterns.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: The EEAS as a Catalyst of Diplomatic Innovation; Jozef Bátora and David Spence 1. Theorizing the EU's Diplomatic Service: Rational Player or Social Body?; Rebecca Adler-Nissen PART I: THE NEW SETTING OF EU DIPLOMACY: problems and Prospects for the European External Action Service 2. The EEAS and its epistemic communities: the challenge of hybridism; David Spence 3. A hybrid service: organising efficient EU foreign policy; Cesare Onestini 4. The High Representative of the Union: the quest for leadership in EU foreign policy; Niklas Helwig 5. The Advance of a European Executive Order in Foreign Policy? Recruitment Practices in the European External Action Service (EEAS); Zuzana Murdoch and Jarle Trondal 6. The EEAS, EU External Assistance and Development Aid: Institutional Dissonance or Inter-service Harmony?; Isabelle Tannous 7. Democratic accountability and EU diplomacy: the EEAS and the role of the European Parliament; Kolja Raube PART II: THE EEAS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 8. Unus inter plures? The EEAS, the Vienna Convention and international diplomatic practice; Jan Wouters and Sanderijn Duquet 9. EU Law and the EEAS: Of Complex Competences and Constitutional Consequences; Geert De Baere and Ramses A. Wessel PART III: EFFECTIVE MULTILATERALISM: EU DELEGATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 10. The EU Delegation in New York: A Debut in High Political Drama; Katie Laatikainen 11. From the Convention to Lisbon: external competence and the uneasy transition for Geneva Delegations; David Spence 12. Effective multilateralism after Lisbon: the added value of the EEAS and the EU delegation in Vienna; Lars Erik Lundin PART IV: BILATERALISM and EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC CAPACITY 13. National adaptation and survival in a changing European diplomacy; Rosa Balfour and Kristi Raik 14. Europe in America: an upgraded EU delegation in a reinforced system of European diplomatic coordination; Heidi Maurer 15. Representing the EU in China: European Bilateral Diplomacy in a Competitive Diplomatic Environment; Frauke Austermann 16. Structural Diplomacy and foreign policy: the Case of the EU Delegation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Bruno Hanses and David Spence PART V: ORGANIZING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE DIPLOMATIC APPROACH 17. The EEAS and Crisis Management: the Organisational Challenges of a Comprehensive Approach; Allison Weston and Frederic Mérand 18. The Public Diplomacy Role of the EEAS: crafting a Resilient Image for Europe; Mai'a K. Davis Cross 19. Towards a EU Consular policy?; Ana Mar Fernandez-Pasarin PART VI: HUMAN RESOURCES AND DIPLOMATIC TRAINING 20. Attitudes, identities and esprit de corps in the EEAS; Ana Juncos and Karolina Pomorska 21. Women in the EEAS: another Post-Westphalia Change?; Tereza Novotná 22. Preparing the Future: Diplomatic Training in the EU; Simon Duke Index

About the Author :
Davis Spence is Dinam Fellow at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics, UK. Jozef Bátora is Associate Professor of Political Science at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Review :
"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 support essential 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)