The EU and crisis response

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The EU and crisis response is written by Roger Mac Ginty and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526161400 (ISBN 10) and 9781526161406 (ISBN 13).

This innovative and timely consideration of the European Union’s crisis response mechanisms brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to examine how and why the EU responds to crises on its borders and further afield. The work is based on extensive fieldwork in – among other places – Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Iraq. The book considers the construction of crises and how some issues are deemed crises and others not. A major finding from this comparative study is that EU crisis response interventions have been placing increasing emphasis on security and stabilisation and less emphasis on human rights and democratisation. This changes – quite fundamentally – the EU’s stance as an international actor and leads to questions about the nature of the European Union and how it perceives itself and is perceived by others. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.