Diplomacy and Crisis Management in the Balkans
Diplomacy and Crisis Management in the Balkans

Author: Gazmen Xhudo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1349249475

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, observers and players of American foreign policy have been wrestling with what US policy is and, more importantly, what it should be in the post-Cold War era. The breakdown of communism in the East has coincided with the outbreak of warfare in the former Yugoslavia to add a new sense of urgency for those seeking a direction for US foreign policy. This work seeks to demonstrate how reactive rather than proactive measures by the US, in both democracy promotion and in crisis management have been short-sighted, resulting in the present failure.

Evaluating the EU's Crisis Missions in the Balkans
Evaluating the EU's Crisis Missions in the Balkans

Author: Isabelle Ioannides

Publisher: CEPS

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9290797096

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This book offers a critical analysis of the EU's first police and military crisis management missions in the Balkans--in Bosnia and Macedonia. The authors have conducted extensive research both in the field and at EU headquarters in Brussels. Their findings yield some important lessons for ongoing and future missions, from establishing mission goals to operational planning and specialized training of troops to battlefield tactics and weaponry to adapting to shifting political situations and controlling the local populace. Contributors include Isabelle Ioannides (Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK), Anna Juncos (Department of Politics, Loughborough University, UK), and Ursula Schroeder (European University Institute, Florence, Italy).

EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management
EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management

Author: Eva Gross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-12-22

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1136833633

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Conflict prevention and crisis management has become a key activity for the EU since the creation of the Common Security and Defence Policy in 1999. The rapid growth of this policy area, as well as the number of missions deployed beyond the EU’s border raise important questions about the nature of the EU’s international role and its contribution to international security. The Contributions to EU Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management analyze European conflict prevention and crisis management in terms of the EU’s evolving global role, its institutions and its policies. The volume analyzes the EU’s position in relation to the US, the UN and other regional security organizations, and applies three different institutionalist perspectives – historical, rational choice and sociological institutionalism - to explain the increasing institutionalization of EU crisis management. It also critically analyzes the application of EU policies in West Africa, Afghanistan and the Caucasus. Providing a comprehensive analysis of EU crisis management, the volume explores what role EU conflict prevention and crisis management plays in a European and a global context. Offering a comprehensive and original contribution to the literature on EU foreign and security policy, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, international relations and security studies.

Hunger and Fury
Hunger and Fury

Author: Jasmin Mujanović

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0190877391

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Argues that the Balkans are on the cusp of a historic socio-political transformation rather than renewed ethnic strife

Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe
Cultures of Crisis in Southeast Europe

Author: Klaus Roth

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 3643907915

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The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them: on their impact on everyday life, on peoples' strategies of coping, on the processes of adaptation, and on peoples' attitudes. (Series: Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 19) [Subject: Sociology, Balkan Studies, Politics, Migration, Crisis Management]