The European Union as Crisis Manager Patterns and Prospects [Paperback]

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union's many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.The European Union is increasingly active as a crisis manager - from terrorist attacks to financial collapse; from natural disasters to cyber threats - but little is known about the EU's capacities. This book maps and assesses these capacities, explaining how they evolved and how they work.The European Union is increasingly active as a crisis manager - from terrorist attacks to financial collapse; from natural disasters to cyber threats - but little is known about the EU's capacities. This book maps and assesses these capacities, explaining how they evolved and how they work.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. Maló,