Co-Managing International Crises
Judgments and Justifications

How do states succeed or fail in managing crises together? Kornprobst examines the structures and processes of cross-national crisis co-management.

Markus Kornprobst (Author)

9781108496407, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 April 2019

346 pages, 3 b/w illus. 13 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.68 kg

'… the stimulating perspective of Kornprobst genuinely connects theories of communicative action inspired by Jürgen Habermas with the work on social practices of Pierre Bourdieu, therefore demonstrating how profitable European social theories can be to students of IR.' Léonard Colomba-Petteng, European Review of International Studies

Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovative approach to analyse how crisis co-management comes to succeed or fail. He argues that actors draw from repertoires of taken-for-granted ideas, forming a set of pre-judgments. These are then revisited in justificatory encounters, making various degrees of co-management possible or impossible. This judging and justifying in turn leaves an impression on repertoires put to use for co-managing the next crisis. The author uses this model to analyse the attempts by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to co-manage the crises in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He links individual reasoning and communication, paving the way for further research into crisis co-management, and providing novel insights into European attempts to act in international affairs.

Introduction
1. Judgments and justifications
2. Constellation
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Kosovo
5. Afghanistan
6. Iraq
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Political leaders & leadership [JPHL], Political structure & processes [JPH], Comparative politics [JPB], Political science & theory [JPA]