European Crisis Management and the Politics of Financialization

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Hans-Jürgen Bieling ◽  
Simon Guntrum
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
European Crisis

From ‘one right way’ to ‘one ruinous way’? Discursive shifts in ‘There is no alternative’

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Séville
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Double Effect ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Third Way Politics ◽  
Political Steering ◽  
Made In

If decisions are made in democracies in open procedures, the rhetoric ofThere is no alternative(TINA) raises certain questions. Tracing back the idea of necessity to symptomatic discourses, this article analyzes TINA as a political strategy in contexts such as Thatcherism, Third Way politics, and European crisis management, and sheds light on the specific characteristics of politics in the name of TINA. The analysis identifies distinct models of ‘one way’ discourses, reflecting political cultures and institutional settings and providing discursive trajectories. We examine the motivation for invoking necessity to justify unpalatable and normatively intricate policy decisions, and understand TINA politics in its double effect: as facilitating certain policies yet obstructing democratic and deliberative procedures. This allows us to address the question of whether the politics of our time shows a disposition to TINA as a means of responding to the rise and fall of political steering optimism.

scholarly journals Contrasting Rhetoric and Converging Security Interests of the European Union and China in Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Katharina Stahl
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Security Models ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Chinese Rhetoric

In recent years, both the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have considerably stepped up their presence in Africa, including in the field of peace and security. This article discusses how the EU's and China's understanding of governance and sovereignty affects their respective security strategies in Africa. It argues that although European and Chinese rhetoric significantly differs in terms of the doctrines of sovereignty and governance, the conventional wisdom of two competing security models is inaccurate. As a matter of fact, Brussels and Beijing pursue converging security interests in Africa, a fact that can open the door for coordinated Sino-European crisis management efforts.

European Crisis Management avant La Lettre

2008 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Willem F. van Eekelen ◽  
Steven Blockmans
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
European Crisis

European Crisis Management and Defence

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Christian Hagman
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
European Crisis
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