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Collateral Damage: How EU Internal Policies Shape Crises and Conflict Abroad

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Authors:
Kristina Kausch [4]
06/12/2021

Europe is increasingly affected by conflicts in its neighbourhood, but its ability to prevent and resolve them remains limited. This dilemma underlines the need for European foreign and security policy to make optimal use of tools, assets and resources available. The EU’s main framework to do so, the Integrated Approach to Conflicts and Crises, emphasises traditionally external policy sectors such as diplomacy, defence and development cooperation, but neglects tools and policy sectors predominantly understood as internal. Conceptually, the EU has acknowledged the need to employ the entire range of tools and instruments in its whole-of-governance approach to conflict, but when it comes to implementation, internal policy areas are barely part of the equation. A few policy areas with obvious internal-external linkages such as migration, energy or climate are more advanced conceptually. However, a systematic integration of internal policy areas into the calculus of how EU policy impacts human security abroad remains absent.

joint_rp_5.pdf [3]

Details

  • Details

    Rome, IAI, December 2021, 36 p.
  • In:
    JOINT Papers [2]
  • Issue

    JOINT Research Paper 5

Table of contents

Introduction
1. The internal-external nexus: Conceptualisation, tools and implementation
2. Illustrative sectors
2.1 Agriculture: Revamping an unsustainable model
2.2 Migration: The human cost of securitisation and outsourcing
2.3 Climate: Mitigating external effects of the Green Deal
3. Conclusion: Do internal policies live up to their potential?
References

External links

Paper in JOINT website [5]

Source URL:https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c25/collateral-damage-how-eu-internal-policies-shape-crises-and-conflict-abroad

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[1] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/c25/collateral-damage-how-eu-internal-policies-shape-crises-and-conflict-abroad [2] https://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/lista/all/joint-papers [3] https://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/joint_rp_5.pdf [4] https://www.iai.it/en/persone/kristina-kausch [5] https://www.jointproject.eu/?p=689