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The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept

Pogodda, S.; Mac Ginty, R.; Richmond, O.

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S. Pogodda

O. Richmond



Abstract

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.

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Pogodda, S., Mac Ginty, R., & Richmond, O. (2021). The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept. Conflict, Security and Development, 21(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 20, 2020
Online Publication Date Jan 11, 2021
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Nov 24, 2020
Publicly Available Date Jul 11, 2022
Journal Conflict, Security and Development
Print ISSN 1467-8802
Electronic ISSN 1478-1174
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 21
Issue 1
Pages 85-106
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442

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