This book advances research on European diplomacy, security and foreign policy, using insights from practice approaches in social science and especially IR. The chapters originally published as a special issue in European Security.

1. European diplomatic practices: contemporary challenges and innovative approaches Federica Bicchi and Niklas Bremberg 2. Doing Europe: agency and the European Union in the field of counter-piracy practice Christian Bueger 3. Making sense of the EU's response to the Arab uprisings: foreign policy practice at times of crisis Niklas Bremberg 4. The practice of burden sharing in European crisis management operations Frédéric Mérand and Antoine Rayroux 5. Europe under occupation: the European diplomatic community of practice in the Jerusalem area Federica Bicchi 6. European security as practice: EU-NATO communities of practice in the making? Nina Græger 7. The making of a diplomat: the case of the French Diplomatic and Consular Institute as an identity workspace Donoxti Baylon 8. Transgovernmental networks and rationalist outputs? The partial social construction of EU foreign policy Nicola Chelotti