01527     2200229   4500001002100000005001500021008004100036020002300077035001900100041000800119082001200127084001800139100002600157245010400183260002400287300001800311500006000329520084700389650002201236650002801258650001101286INLIS00000000000973620200508204932200508|||||||||   |   |||   |||| ||eng||  a9978-90-04-37292-4  0010-0520009736  aeng0 a341.242  a341.242/RAS/T0 aSteffen Bay Rasmussen00aThe Ideas and Practices of the European Union’s Structural Antidiplomacy: An Unstable Equilibrium  aLeidenbBrillc2018  aviii, 266 pp.  a<a href="https://brill.com/view/title/22820">e-book</a>  aIn 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. 0aInternational Law 0aInternational Relations 0aEU Law