The EU and crisis response

This is a start-of-the-art consideration of the European Union's crisis response mechanisms. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its borders and further afield. The work is based on extensive fieldwork in among another places, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Iraq. The book considers the construction of crises and how some issues are deemed crises and others not. A major finding from this comparative study is that EU crisis response interventions have been placing increasing emphasis on security and stabilisation and less emphasis on human rights and democratisation. This changes - quite fundamentally - the EU's stance as an international actor and leads to questions about the nature of the EU and how it perceives itself and is perceived by others. The volume is able to bring together scholars from EU Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. The result showcases concept and theory-building alongside case study research.

1 Introduction: controversies over gaps within EU crisis management policy -- Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda and Oliver P. Richmond2 Critical crisis transformation: a framework for understanding EU crisis response -- Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Roger Mac Ginty3 The potential and limits of EU crisis response -- Pernille Rieker & Kristian L. Gjerde4 The EU's integrated approach to crisis response: learning from the UN, NATO and OSCE -- Loes Debuysere and Steven Blockmans5 Securitisation of the EU approach to the Western Balkans: from conflict transformation to crisis management -- Kari M. Osland and Mateja Peter6 The paradoxes of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali -- Morten Bøås, Bård Drange, Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, Abdoul Wahab Cissé and Qayoom Suroush7 The effectiveness of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali -- Ingo Peters, Enver Ferhatovic, Rabea Heinemann and Sofia Sturm8 Dissecting the EU response to the 'migration crisis' -- Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari Index