European External Action
Critical Geopolitics
Series Editors:
Alan Ingram, University College London, UK
Merje Kuus, University of British Columbia, Canada
Chih Yuan Woon, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Over the last two decades, critical geopolitics has become a prominent field in human geography. It has developed to encompass topics associated with popular culture, everyday life, architecture and urban form as well as the more familiar issues of security, inter-national relations and global power projection. Critical geopolitics takes inspiration from studies of governmentality and biopolitics, gender and sexuality, political economy and development, postcolonialism and the study of emotion and affect. Methodologically, it continues to employ discourse analysis and is engaging with ethnography and participatory research methods. This rich field continues to develop new ways of analysing geopolitics.
This series provides an opportunity for early career researchers as well as established scholars to publish theoretically informed monographs and edited volumes that engage with critical geopolitics and related areas such as international relations theory and security studies. With an emphasis on accessible writing, the books in the series will appeal to wider audiences including journalists, policy communities and civil society organizations with interests in international affairs and practices of security, identity and power.
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First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Bachmann, Veit, 1979- author.
Title: European external action : the making of EU diplomacy in Kenya / by
Veit Bachmann.
Description: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2016. | Series:
Critical geopolitics | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015033458| ISBN 9781472423153 (hardback : alk. paper) |
Subjects: LCSH: European Union countries--Foreign relations--Kenya. |
Kenya--Foreign relations--European Union countries. | European External
Action Service.
Classification: LCC D2025.5.K46 B34 2016 | DDC 327.406762--dc23 LC record available
at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015033458
ISBN 9781472423153 (hbk)
I would like to express my gratitude to a number of people and institutions that have been instrumental for me in the process of developing this book. Primarily, I want to thank my partner Betty. Un grand merci toi, Betty, for supporting me with your patience and love during the long fieldwork and grumpy writing phases and for enriching my thoughts and reflections on this book through your comments, ideas and your own work.
The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has generously provided funding for this research as part of the project EuroGaps: External Relations and External Perceptions of the European Union in Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa . And the Department of Human Geography at Goethe-University Frankfurt has functioned as an excellent host for our research group. I am highly indebted to all the informants and cooperation partners that have contributed to this research, in particular the Delegation of the European Union to Kenya and the University of Nairobis Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies. Katy Crossan at Ashgate and Merje Kuus as series editor have provided invaluable support throughout the entire process of developing this book.
I am also very grateful to Alec Murphy, Anita Kiamba, Bernd, Christiane Tristl, Elke Alban, my brother Horsti and his family, Ievgenii Rovnyi, James Sidaway, Jason Dittmer, Johannes Fuchs, Makumi Mwagiru, Marc Boeckler, Martin Mller, Nannette Abrahams, my parents Gnther and Christine, pfi, Peter Lindner, Sami Moisio, my sister Heike and her family, Stefan Ouma, Susan Amoko, Thomas Klinger and Till Paasche for supporting me in various ways during the course of this research project. All of your contributions have been of different nature, but helped me to complete this book through a mix of challenging and relaxing ways.