Member State Comprehensive European Crisis Management

Abstract

Also EU member states try to improve the coherence of their policies and actions in managing crises. Numerous governments carried out reforms that aimed at advancing the management of respective national crisis management efforts and the coordination between their own ministries. After having identified the appropriate analytical framework for this dissertation and having discussed efforts toward a CA in international crisis management at EU level, the following chapters empirically analyze what the CA means in different EU member states. National member state approaches to the CA and their means of trying to improve crisis management coherence are examined by looking at efforts in the UK, Germany and Sweden. In doing so, it is covered what has been elaborated as vital elements of the CA in the previous chapters: the crisis management approach, the conceptual dimension, the organizational dimension and the European dimension.