Date: 2021
Type: Article
Externalizing EU crisis management : EU orchestration of the OSCE during the Ukrainian conflict
Contemporary security policy, 2021, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 498-529
AMADIO VICERÉ, Maria Giulia, Externalizing EU crisis management : EU orchestration of the OSCE during the Ukrainian conflict, Contemporary security policy, 2021, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 498-529
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Despite the Lisbon Treaty's modifications in the foreign and security policy domain, the EU has frequently relied on third parties to address external conflicts and crises. Using the Ukrainian conflict as a case study, this article adopts the orchestration model to explain why and how the EU enlists intermediary actors over which it has no formal control to pursue its objectives. It finds that in this conflict the EU outsourced part of its crisis management activities to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe because it lacked the civilian and military capabilities, as well as the regulatory competence and reputation to challenge Russia. Indeed, the Ukrainian case shows that orchestration has emerged as a crucial governance arrangement for the functioning of EU crisis management, raising serious questions about the EU overall capacity to act as a security provider in an international system marred by contestation and hard security concerns.
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Published online: 8 October 2021
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/75463
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2021.1985287
ISSN: 1352-3260; 1743-8764
Publisher: Routledge
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