European External Action: The Making of EU Diplomacy in Kenya

European External Action provides a critical assessment of the practice of EU diplomacy in a key site of Africa-European relations and the global development industry - the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. It analyses how the EU positions itself through the European External Action Service (EEAS) and how it is perceived as a collective geopolitical actor. The book thus to wider debates on the EU’s role as a global and development actor as well as providing novel insights into the making of external agency in and through EU diplomacy. It will be an illuminating read for those in Geography, International Relations, European Studies, Development Studies and Political Studies.

Veit Bachmann is Director of the EuroGaps research group that examines external relations and external perceptions of the EU in sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region based in the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. More generally, his research interests are in political geography, (critical) geopolitics, European studies and global North-South relations with a focus on the international identity and role of the EU as a global and development actor.