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

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

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.

Citation

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
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1250489