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.

摘要

尽管危机通常是由冲突引起的，但欧盟将危机视为一种现象。当代的欧盟危机管理代表了规范性的欧盟建设和平方法的缩水，被简化为一项技术活动，雄心勃勃，难以遏制危机的溢出效应。从理论上讲，这是一种逆转，使干预措施朝着欧盟安全利益倾斜，并避免与危机的根本原因打交道。本文开发了一种从冲突理论衍生而来的新颖的危机应对类型学，其范围从危机管理到危机解决和（关键）危机转化。通过借鉴欧盟在利比亚，马里和乌克兰的干预措施，该论文证明了基本的危机管理方法在实践中非常重要。更有希望的创新仍主要限于讨论和政策文件的领域。