The creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s new diplomatic body, was accompanied by high expectations for improving the way Europe w
This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic
Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Servic
This book provides a critical and updated analysis of the nature of the EU’s strategic partnership diplomacy, and of the partnerships themselves, in times of
The EEAS was established to give EU foreign policy new impetus, greater coherence and efficacy. It remains to be seen whether the current organizational concept