Menon, Anand and Sedelmeier, Ulrich 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6963-4296
(2010)
Instruments and intentionality: civilian crisis management and enlargement conditionality in EU security policy.
West European Politics, 33 (1).
pp. 75-92.
ISSN 0140-2382
Abstract
This article applies a public policy instrumentation approach to two instruments of EU security policy-civilian crisis management and enlargement conditionality. Both have come to be portrayed, by policy-makers and observers alike, as deliberate and efficient responses to specific policy challenges. Our analysis of the processes behind their adoption challenges such claims. In a complex institution like the EU, and in a sensitive sector like security, the development of new policy instruments requires negotiation within dense institutional settings. The resulting instruments do not necessarily match the initial intentions of their creators. The focus on unanticipated-albeit in retrospect not necessarily undesired-consequences in the development of the instruments of EU security policy also contributes to the broader research agenda on policy instruments, which problematises the selection of policy instruments yet nevertheless tends to perceive them as part of a deliberate strategy of policy change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01402382.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2010 12:11 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 20:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26588 |
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