Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on EU practitioners approach the Union's foreign policy to its eastern neighbourhood including Russia from a post-structuralist prospective, this title offers a new methodology to capture practices through the analytical approach of Discursive International Relations and Discursive Practice Model to analysis practitioners' practices.
Trade Review'It is sometimes said, jokingly, that there are more people researching and writ- ing about EU foreign policy than actually doing it. Beatrix Futák-Campbell’s book places the analytical spotlight on the latter and, more specifically, on ‘EU practitioners’ practice’. [...] for its elaborate and innovative conceptualisation of discur- sive practices in EU foreign policy and for its rich set of (re-usable) inter- view data, this book deserves wide readership in the EU studies scholarly community.'
David Cadier, CERI-Sciences Po Paris, European Review of International Studies 7 (2020)
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Theory
1 Studying practitioners’ practices
2 Studying social action in interaction
Part II: Practice
3 Constructing the ‘European’
4 The normative role of the EU in the eastern region
5 EU foreign policy as a vocation for Europe
6 Justifying the EU’s interests in the region: energy security
Conclusion
Index
