ABSTRACT

Over the past fifty years, crisis management has become essential to achieving and maintaining national security. This book offers a comparative analysis of the preconditions and constraints nine European states place on their participation in international crisis management operations and the important consequences of such decisions, and provides a theoretical framework to help the reader understand this complex decision-making process.

part |27 pages

Problem definition and framework of analysis

chapter |9 pages

Elements of change

chapter |7 pages

Three propositions

part |198 pages

The case studies

chapter |49 pages

Changing the rules

Belgium and the Netherlands

chapter |39 pages

The imperative of consensus

Denmark and Norway

chapter |66 pages

The dominant government

The United Kingdom, France and Spain

chapter |42 pages

The dominant parliament

Germany and Italy

part |32 pages

Comparative analysis and conclusions