The European Union as Crisis Manager Patterns and Prospects
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 capaciti...
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Cambridge ; New York
Cambridge University Press
2013
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- Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The EU as crisis manager -- The surprising emergence of the EU as crisis manager -- A new world of crisis: modern vulnerabilities, urgent threats, and impossible challenges -- Looking for EU capacities: three crisis domains -- An institutional framework for analysis -- Understanding institutionalization of the EU's crisis management domains -- The institutionalization of EU crisis management capacities: a phase model -- Studying institutionalization: our approach -- Outline of the book -- 2 Assisting overwhelmed states -- Introduction: the gradual ascendance of the Civil Protection Mechanism -- The Civil Protection Mechanism: a brief policy history -- The 9/11attacks and the birth of the Civil Protection Mechanism -- The Solidarity Clause -- Expansion after Lisbon -- The Mechanism: how it works -- A network of experts and resources -- Use of the Civil Protection Mechanism: empirical observations39 -- The floods in Central Europe (2002)41 -- The sinking of the Prestige43 -- Portuguese forest fires in 200344 -- The 2004Asian tsunami45 -- Analysis: institutionalization in slow motion -- A simple tool for an overwhelming problem: the roots of mission shift -- Emerging problems -- Adaptation: slow but effective -- Limited enthusiasm, low legitimacy -- Conclusion: a tool looking for a goal -- 3 The EU as global crisis manager -- The EU steps on the international podium -- The EU as a global crisis manager: a brief policy history -- The demise of a traditional security paradigm -- The EU enters the security arena -- The Petersberg tasks -- A narrowing of the mission -- Three pillars of external crisis management capacity -- The EU's military capacity -- The EU's civilian crisis management capacities -- Organizing the missions: institutions and decision-making processes -- The European External Action Service
- Other key institutions for EU crisis management -- CSDP and other international organizations -- CSDP-NATO: evolving complementarity -- CSDP-African Union: cooperation through mentorship -- CSDP and the United Nations -- CSDP and the OSCE -- Adding to the EU's crisis management toolkit: humanitarian assistance -- International cooperation -- Analysis: how the EU's capacities became institutionalized -- Translating abstract political aims into practice: missions as laboratories -- Emerging problems: limited budgets and coordination problems -- The capacity to adapt (and embed what works) -- Furthering legitimacy: finding the right niche -- Discussion: the role of leadership (or how Solana and his team created room for experimentation) -- Conclusion: the inadvertent emergence of unique security capacities -- Appendix: CSDP Missions (2003-2012)91 -- 4 Managing transboundary crises -- Introduction: the prospect of transboundary crises -- Building transboundary crisis management capacity: a brief policy history -- Radioactive clouds over Europe -- Mad cows in the UK -- The EU's fragmented approach to managing transboundary crises -- Argus -- Crisis Coordination Arrangements -- Toward consolidation: the Stockholm Programme and the Internal Security Strategy -- Countering terrorism -- Institutional structures of EU counter-terrorism -- Managing borders -- Structures and venues -- Managing epidemics -- Instruments and venues -- Managing critical infrastructures -- Institutional structures -- Managing financial crises -- Financial regulation and supervision -- Managing the fallout of a global financial crisis -- Institutional structures -- Analysis: a fragmented field inching toward institutionalization? -- Ambiguous ambitions -- The capacity to adapt -- Surprising legitimacy: a potential source of forward momentum
- Conclusion: the incremental emergence of transboundary crisis management capacity -- 5 Managing future crises -- From "mapping" to assessing EU crisis management capacities -- Patterns of institutional development -- Vectors of institutionalization -- The unintended consequences of success: spillover as a source of new initiatives -- Critical events as drivers of ambition -- The constraints of legal competences -- The importance of organizational leadership and entrepreneurship -- Policy lock-ins -- From analyzing institutions to normative assessment -- The under-use of limited capacities -- Strategic ambiguity -- Institutional complexity -- Modest funding -- Some hard questions before moving ahead -- Charting a way forward -- Define objectives -- Define crisis competences -- Strengthen existing institutions -- Formulate a new Headline Goal for EU crisis management -- Celebrate success, sell accomplishments -- References -- Index