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.

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Frauke Austermann, is Lecturer and Head of Campus at the International School of Management, Cologne, and Research Associate at ESSCA School of Management, LUNAM University, France
Rosa Balfour, Director, Europe in the World, European Policy Centre (EPC), Brussels, Belgium
Jozef Bátora, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of European Studies and International Relations at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University, USA
Geert De Baere, Assistant Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Faculty of Law, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium
Simon Duke, Professor, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands
Sanderijn Duquet, Fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium
Ana Mar Fernández Pasarín, Associate Professor in Politics and Public Administration, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Bruno Hanses, EU official with extensive experience of European foreign and security policy
Niklas Helwig, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland
Ana E. Juncos, Lecturer in European Politics at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK
Katie Verlin Laatikainen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University, New York, USA
Lars Erik Lundin, Distinguished Associate Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden
Heidi Maurer, Assistant Professor, European Studies at the Department of Politics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Frédéric Mérand, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of CÉRIUM, the University of Montreal Centre for International Studies, Canada
Zuzana Murdoch, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany
Tereza Novotná, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Cesare Onestini, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to India
Karolina Pomorska, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Kristi Raik, Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and Adjunct Professor, University of Turku, Finland
Kolja Raube, Senior Researcher, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Belgium
David Spence, Visiting Fellow, European Institute of the London School of Economics, UK
Isabelle Tannous, Senior Information Research Specialist, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany
Jarle Trondal, Professor of Public Administration, University of Agder, Norway
Ramses A. Wessel, Professor of International and European Institutional Law and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alison Weston, Head of Division with the Operations Directorate of the EU Military Staff, European External Action Service
Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies Institute for International Law, KU Leuven, Belgium

Zusammenfassung
"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)

Inhalt
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: Diplomat…