The European Union and the Specific Crisis Management Tools

AuthorBolborici, A.M.
PositionFaculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov
Pages87-92
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov
Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 6 (55) No. 2 - 2013
THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE
SPECIFIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT
TOOLS
Ana-Maria BOLBORICI1
Abstract: Currently, the EU is in an advanced stage of the process of
unifying context in which relations between the Member States are no longer
held exclusively on a specific set of norms and rules of transnational
diplomacy. The UE is increasingly more and more embedded in a complex
network of relationships which were rooted to an increasing number of areas
coordinated centrally from Brussels. This paper try a succint presentation of
the European Union crises management tools considering that the EU
foreign policy shows that it developed gradually, a structural foreign policy
that transcends pillars of the EU and is closely linked to a structural
diplomacy specific and different from traditional diplomacy.
Key words: Crisis management, defence, security.
1 Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Transilvania University of Brasov.
The disappearance of specific bipolar
order of the Cold War led for granting a
particular importance of international
organizations, the 90’s knowing an
unprecedented momentum in the
development of bilateral and multilateral
collaboration on security. Generally, the
security environment has undergone an
extensive transformation and shaping
characterized by the occurrence of
antagonistic tendencies, such as expanding
democratization, upholding human rights
and market economy, simultaneous with
the enlarging cooperation and integration
in the European and Euro-Atlantic
structures, the disintegration and
fragmentation of multiethnic state entities.
The end of bipolarity has created
conditions favorable to building an
improved security architecture for the
entire Euro-Atlantic area and also other
area, such as Middle East, which aiming at
the same time increase global security and
stability in the Euro-Atlantic area, avoiding
in this way the redrawing of geopolitical
dividing lines of the world.
The social changes that took place in
Europe in the late twentieth century are
reflected especially in the fields of defense
and security, offering particular attention
to the positive aspects of these changes,
such as: replacing the confrontation with
the friendship, developing of partnership
activities, reducing armed forces in both
the East and the West, as well as the
continuous opening and the
demilitarization of the societies. All these
changes have imposed a reassessment of
security requirements, a development of
mechanisms and procedures in national
security policy and crisis management, a
major restructuring and a reduction in the

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