Learning and Change in European Foreign Policy
Posted on 2009-06-18.
von Cornelius Adebahr
Representing the European Union in more than 25 countries globally, the EU Special Representatives have become its ‘eyes and ears.’ This study, the first book ever on this topic, presents an in-depth analysis of one of the EU’s most important foreign policy instruments. It is also one of the few publications on Organizational Learning that combine a rigorous theoretical setup with profound empirical research, based on 55 semi-structured interviews with national and European officials and foreign policy experts. This combination of analytical precision and political relevance makes this publication particularly appropriate for academics, policy-makers, students and everyone interested in the EU’s global role.
The author: Dr Cornelius Adebahr, born in 1975, is a political scientist and entrepreneur. He studied Political Science (International Relations), Philosophy, Public Law, and International Economics in Tübingen, Paris, and at the Free University Berlin, where he graduated in 2001 (Dipl. Pol.) before receiving his PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2008. Since the end of 2000, he has owned ‘Wirtschaft am Wasserturm,’ a company focusing on political consultancy, project development, and training. In this capacity, he works, inter alia, for the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at Erfurt University, teaching a master’s course on European foreign policy at the Erfurt School of Public Policy.
