Kuus Merje. Geopolitics and Expertise. Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy

Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 238 p.Series Editors’ Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: The Crown Jewel.
The Dead Relative: Bounding Europe in Europe.
Geopolitics by Nobody; Carving Places out of Space;
Embodied Europes.
Knowledge and Policy in Transnational Fields.
Placing Diplomatic Knowledge; Policy Fields;
“The work of reciprocal elucidation”.
Brussels and Theatre: Bureaucracy and Place.
Planet Brussels; Those Who Hold the Pen: EU Professionals;
The Political and the Technical – and the Social.
Transnational Diplomats: Representing.
Europe in EU.
European External Action Service; Curved Mirrors:
Negotiating the National; The Group for Which There.
is no Term: The New Member States.
Powers of Conceptualization and Contextualization.
A New Object of Knowledge; Fields of Expertise.
in the European Quarter; “Most people just want to.
do what they are told”.
Feel for the Game: Symbolic Capital in the.
European Quarter.
Symbolic Capital; “We are dealing with elites”; “In the.
third degree of depth”; “An urbane, subtle approach”; Shifts and Spirals.
Political Geographies of Expertise.
Knowledge From and On the East; Finding a Market;
“Things are evolving”; Managing Difference.
Conclusion: Circles of Knowledge.