EFSPS - civilian crisis management

People

The listed members of the EFSPS program have a deep understanding in the area of civilian crisis management

Projects

The following projects by EFSPS members are in the context of civilian crisis management

Civil Protection in the Mediterranean region: security community-building beyond EU enlargement? by Niklas Bremberg

This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of the European Union’s (EU) role in international security. On a theoretical level it seeks to explore the problem of how ... read more

Coherence as an Institutional Challenge. Civil-Civil-Military Interfaces and the Problem of Functional Overlap in EU Crisis Management by Carmen Gebhard

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Europe’s Unrecognised Neighbours: EU policies towards the “frozen conflicts” by Nicu Popescu

The project studied EU policies towards the secessionist entities in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. Despite the fact that these entities do not exist on the map, they seriously ... read more

From post-conflict peacekeeping to protecting the EU’s internal security regime: The impact of the external dimension of Justice and Home Affairs on ESDP Police and Border management missions by Gregory Mounier

The objective of this research project is to investigate the relationship between civilian crisis management operations undertaken in the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and the ... read more

Organized Crime as Challenge for ESDP: Threats, Structures and Counter Strategies by Sammi Sandawi

With the adoption of the European Security Strategy in December 2003, the EU has officially identified Organized Crime (OC) as a key threat to the security of the European Union. ... read more

Policy versus Practice. An analysis of the EU’s internal and external coordination of its crisis management activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Janina Johannsen

The new dynamic security environment of the 21st century has required a paradigm shift when it comes to dealing with a crisis. Civil-military coordination and cooperation have become a critical ... read more

The Effectiveness of European Foreign and Security Policy: Evaluating and Explaining Crisis Management in the Balkans by Tobias Heider

The objective of the research project is to evaluate the effectiveness of European crisis management during the Bosnian conflict 1991-1994. The research design relies on an analytical framework which is ... read more

Publications

Several publications by EFSPS members are in the area of civilian crisis management

• Johannsen, Janina (2011): The EU's Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management. Premises, Ambitions, Limits, Baden Baden
• Heider, Tobias (2009): Evaluating the CFSP/ESDP: A plea for theory-driven comparative studies, Eyes On Europe Issue 11
• Niagalé Bagayoko / Gibert, Marie (2009): The Linkage Between Security, Governance and Development: The European Union in Africa, , Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 45, Nr. 5, pp. 789-814
• Major, Claudia / Mölling, Christian (2009): More than wishful thinking? EU, UN and NATO and Comprehensive Approaches to Crisis Management., In: J. Koops (Hg.): Military Crisis Management and Capacity-Building: The Challenge of Effective Interorganisationalism, Royal Institute for International Affairs: Egmont Paper Nr 30, Brüssel, August 2009: 28-37
• Mölling, Christian (2009): Umfassende Ansätze im internationalen Krisenmanagement: Von der schrittweisen Weiterentwicklung zur konzeptionellen Reorganisation., In: A. Wenger et al. (Hg.): Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik 2009, Zürich 2009: 83-113
• Mölling, Christian / Major, Claudia (2009): International Organisations in Crisis Management – Comprehensive Approaches towards Coordination and Coherence?, commissioned study
• Kurowska, Xymena (2009): EUJUST Themis – a EU rule of law mission in Georgia, in: Giovani Grevi and Daniel Keohane (eds) Ten years of the European Security and Defence Policy, Paris: EUISS
• Kurowska, Xymena / Benjamin Tallis (2009): EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova – Beyond Border Monitoring?, in: European Foreign Affairs Review 14(1)
• Stewart, Emma (2008): 'Capabilities and Coherence? The Evolution of EU Conflict Prevention', European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 13/2 pp. 229-253
• Ioannides, Isabelle (2008): La réforme de la police en Macédoine : la coordination interinstitutionnelle et la coopération internationale à l’épreuve, in B. Delcourt, E. Klimis and M. Martinelli (eds) L’Union européenne et la gestion de crises. Aspects civils et militaires. Brussels: Presses universitaires de Bruxelles.
• Gebhard, Carmen (2008): Civil-Military Coordination and Cooperation. CMCO vs. CIMIC. Conceptual and Terminological Clarifications, Vienna: National Defence Academy
• Gross, Eva (2008): EU and the Comprehensive Approach., DIIS Report 2008:13. Copenhagen, Danish Institute for International Studies
• Kurowska, Xymena (2008): The Role of Missions in the ESDP, in: Michael Merlingen&Rasa Ostraukaite (eds)The European Security and Defence Policy: Implementation Perspective, London and New York: Routledge
• Juncos, Ana E. (2007): Coherence and effectiveness of EUPM in Bosnia and Herzegovina: What lessons for the EU’s civilian crisis management policies?, in Emerson, M. and Gross, E. (ed.), Evaluating the EU's initial Crisis Management Missions, pp. 46-80
• Michael Emerson / Gross, Eva (2007): Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans, CEPS Paperback
• Gross, Eva (2007): Civilian and Military Missions in the Western Balkans., Emerson and Gross, Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans. CEPS Paperback: 115-137
• Schroeder, Ursula (2007): Governance of EU Crisis Management, In: Eva M. Gross and Michael Emerson (eds.) ‘Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Missions in the Balkans’, Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 17-45; http://shop.ceps.eu/BookDetail.php?item_id=1538
• Ioannides, Isabelle (2007): ‘European Policing’? A Critical Analysis of EU Crisis Management Efforts in the Western Balkans, in ASN Conference Proceedings “Globalisation, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts in the Balkans and Its Regional Context”. Belgrade: Forum for Ethnic Relations.
• Ioannides, Isabelle (2007): Police Mission in Macedonia , in M. Emerson and E. Gross (eds) Evaluating the EU’s Crisis Management Missions in the Balkans. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, pp. 81-126. Available at www.ceps.eu
• Juncos, Ana E. (2007): Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Emerson, M. and Gross, E. (ed.), Evaluating the EU's Crisis Missions in the Balkans, Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), pp. 46-80
• Juncos, Ana E. (2007): Civil-military co-ordination in Security Sector Reform: experiences from EU crisis management policies, in Britz, M. (ed.) The European Union and Security Sector Reform, Stockholm, Swedish National Defence College, pp. 53-66.
• Stewart, Emma (2006): The European Union and Conflict Prevention. Policy Evolution and Outcome. Münster: Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research/Lit Verlag.,
• Ioannides, Isabelle (2006): EU Police Mission Proxima: Testing the ‘European’ Approach to Building Peace, in A. Nowak (ed.) Civilian Crisis Management: The EU Way. Chaillot Paper No. 90. Paris: European Institute for Security Studies, June 2006, p. 69-86. Available at www.iss-eu.org