Awards

• Joint winner for American Sociological Association - Political Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2015.
• Joint winner of American Sociological Association - Political Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2015
• Joint winner of IPS Book Award, International Political Sociology Section, International Studies Association 2015
• Winner of American Sociological Association - Political Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2015.
• Winner of British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize 2015
• Winner of British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize 2015.

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'This is an excellent book which covers an important and timely topic in an innovative and useful way. I have no doubt that this will be a work of great interest to students of European studies, international theory, and diplomatic studies. It demonstrates the value of incorporating sociological approaches into the study of the increasingly wider and more important spaces which are developing between the insides and the outsides and about which much of IR theory struggles to speak coherently' Paul Sharp, University of Minnesota, Duluth 'This is a very exciting book. The argument is original and likely to make a splash among both International Relations and European Union scholars. It is one of the first and, to this date, the most sophisticated attempt at showing that sovereignty is not only an abstract concept but something that is lived and managed by real social actors, namely diplomats. The author weaves a rich and varied theoretical literature in an elegant, compelling manner. The empirical material is fascinating and the manuscript is well structured and well written. Thanks to an impressive number of in-depth interviews and unique ethnographical work, the book shows how diplomats embody the state and make sense of formal rules in their routine, daily activities.' Frederic Merand, University of Montreal

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Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on international relations theory, diplomacy, sovereignty, security and European integration. She is editor of Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR (2012), and co-editor of European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The EU Overseas Countries and Territories (2012) and Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond (2008).

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