TY - JOUR
T1 - The EU and critical crisis transformation
T2 - the evolution of a policy concept
AU - Pogodda, Sandra
AU - Ginty, Roger Mac
AU - Richmond, Oliver
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (EUNPACK- A conflict sensitive unpacking of the EU comprehensive approach to conflict and crises mechanism), under grant agreement no.: 693337.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 King’s College London.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - While often caused by conflict, crises are treated by the EU as a phenomenon of their own. Contemporary EU crisis management represents a watering down of normative EU approaches to peacebuilding, reduced to a technical exercise with the limited ambition to contain spillover effects of crises. In theoretical terms this is a reversal, which tilts intervention towards EU security interests and avoids engagement with the root causes of the crises. This paper develops a novel crisis response typology derived from conflict theory, which ranges from crisis management to crisis resolution and (critical) crisis transformation. By drawing on EU interventions in Libya, Mali and Ukraine, the paper demonstrates that basic crisis management approaches are pre-eminent in practice. More promising innovations remain largely confined to the realms of discourse and policy documentation.
AB - While often caused by conflict, crises are treated by the EU as a phenomenon of their own. Contemporary EU crisis management represents a watering down of normative EU approaches to peacebuilding, reduced to a technical exercise with the limited ambition to contain spillover effects of crises. In theoretical terms this is a reversal, which tilts intervention towards EU security interests and avoids engagement with the root causes of the crises. This paper develops a novel crisis response typology derived from conflict theory, which ranges from crisis management to crisis resolution and (critical) crisis transformation. By drawing on EU interventions in Libya, Mali and Ukraine, the paper demonstrates that basic crisis management approaches are pre-eminent in practice. More promising innovations remain largely confined to the realms of discourse and policy documentation.
KW - conflict theory
KW - Crisis management
KW - crisis transformation
KW - EU
KW - Libya
KW - Mali
KW - Ukraine
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U2 - 10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442
DO - 10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099407513
SN - 1467-8802
VL - 21
SP - 85
EP - 106
JO - Conflict, Security and Development
JF - Conflict, Security and Development
IS - 1
ER -