The Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy

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The Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy is written by Steffen Bay Rasmussen and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900437292X (ISBN 10) and 9789004372924 (ISBN 13).

In The Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy, Steffen Bay Rasmussen offers a comprehensive analysis of EU diplomacy that goes beyond the functioning of the European External Action Service and discusses the sui generis nature of the EU as a diplomatic actor, the forms of bilateral and multilateral representation as well as the actor identity, founding ideas and meta-practices of EU diplomacy. The book employs a novel theoretical approach that distinguishes the social structures of diplomacy from the practices and meta-practices of diplomacy. Comparing EU diplomacy to the two theoretically constructed ideal types of Westphalian diplomacy and utopian antidiplomacy, Steffen Bay Rasmussen concludes that the EU’s international agency constitutes a new form of diplomacy called structural antidiplomacy.