The EU's External Governance of Agriculture and Rural Development : Shaping Rural Spaces / Laura Gelhaus.

1. Introduction2. The European Union in Georgia and the world: Role concepts, external governance, and beyond3. Shaping rural spaces4. Global pressures, enlargement, and EU-ropean rural spaces from productivism to multifunctionality5. EU rural policies in Georgia6. Geographical Indications and LEADER in Georgian rural spaces7. Conclusion

This book explores how the EU externally governs through agriculture and rural development and how this external governance shapes rural spaces in Georgia. Analysing two EU policy instruments - Geographical Indications and the LEADER rural development programme - the book develops a novel way of studying the consequences of EU external actions 'on the ground' by bringing in sociological, rural studies, and political geography concepts of rural space. In doing so, it analyses the often less visible processes at local levels and in rural areas and proposes how to improve analyses of EU external actions more generally. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU external policy, EU foreign policy, agricultural and rural development, post-Soviet politics, and, more broadly, to EU studies.