The European External Action Service. European diplomacy post-Westphalia

The European Union is a transformational polity arguably challenging diplomacy as an institutional order. This book provides the most comprehensive set of analyses to date of the dynamics of EU development towards a post-Westphalian diplomatic order.

The book reviews the conceptual origins of the EU's diplomatic apparatus and explains its institutional history, whilst raising key questions about the new organisation of foreign policy and diplomacy beyond individual European states. It also 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.

Contents:

Introduction: The EEAS as a catalyst of diplomatic innovation - Jozef Bátora and David Spence
1. Theorising 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 challenges of diplomatic 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 - 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 governance: 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 Organisations
10. The EU Delegation in New York: a debut of high political drama - Katie Verlin 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. An upgraded EU Delegation in a reinforced system of European diplomatic coordination: insights from Washington - Heidi Maurer
15. Representing the EU in China: European bilateral diplomacy in a competitive diplomatic environment - Frauke Austermann
16. The EEAS and bilateral relations: the case of the EU Delegation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Bruno Hanses and David Spence

Part V. Organising for a Comprehensive Diplomatic Approach
17. The EEAS and crisis management: the organisational challenges of a comprehensive approach - Alison Weston and Frédéric Mérand
18. The public diplomacy role of the EEAS: crafting a resilient image for Europe - Mai’a K. Davis Cross
19. Towards an EU consular policy? - Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín

Part VI. Human Resources and Diplomatic Training
20. Attitudes, identities and the emergence of an esprit de corps in the EEAS - Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska
21. Women in the EEAS and EU Delegations: another post-Westphalia change? - Tereza Novotná
22. Diplomatic training in the European Union - Simon Duke

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.