Governance of EU Crisis Management
Governance of EU Crisis Management

Author(s): Ursula C. Schroeder
Subject(s): Governance, Security and defense, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Governance; EU Crisis management; coherent planing;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter assesses the translation of recent European Union crisis management concepts into practice. In its quest for a comprehensive crisis management policy, has the EU been able to move from strategic concepts to coherent planning? Assuming an institutionalist perspective on organisational change, the chapter explores the gap between crisis management concepts and the organisational realities of everyday and work-level interactions. Through tracing the development of crisis management coordination in the EU architecture, the chapter takes stock of the successes and failures in the EU’s governance of its policies in this area. It contends that the Council and the Commission have followed different organisational strategies for implementing comprehensive crisis management operations and outlines three general trends in their relationship: convergence, coordination and compartmentalisation.

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