The European Union as Crisis Manager
Patterns and Prospects

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union's many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.

Arjen Boin (Author), Magnus Ekengren (Author), Mark Rhinard (Author)

9781107035799, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 August 2013

206 pages, 1 b/w illus.
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm, 0.46 kg

'… this volume presents an affordable contemporary overview of the EU's crisis management capacities, the findings of which can be further extended to studies of international relations and organizations. In addition, being rather descriptive in its analysis, this book serves as a perfect 'background story' for starting more detailed research for each domain of the EU's crisis management, employing certain data as a starting point for future case studies.' Nataliya Gudz, Journal of Contemporary European Studies

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have to manage such crises? Why and how have these capacities evolved? How do they work and are they effective? This book offers an holistic perspective on EU crisis management. It defines the crisis concept broadly and examines EU capacities across policy sectors, institutions and agencies. The authors describe the full range of EU crisis management capacities that can be used for internal and external crises. Using an institutionalization perspective, they explain how these different capacities evolved and have become institutionalized. This highly accessible volume illuminates a rarely examined and increasingly important area of European cooperation.

1. The EU as crisis manager: a new role for the Union
2. Assisting overwhelmed states: the evolving use of the Civil Protection Mechanism
3. The EU as global crisis manager: how emerging tools shaped ambitious policy aims
4. Managing transboundary crises: the gradual emergence of EU capacity
5. Managing future crises: challenges and prospects for the European Union.

Subject Areas: Public administration [JPP], Comparative politics [JPB], Politics & government [JP]