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.

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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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
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