Nicole Koenig is Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin, Germany.

'The work provides an extensive and thought-provoking assessment of the obstacles to a truly integrated European Common Security and Defence Policy today... Overall, the author uses an innovative approach, offering scholars and students an original and stimulating perspective for reading recent EU developments in security matters.'-Margherita Bianchi, Université libre de Bruxelles, The International Spectator

• 1. Introduction 2. Managing crises – between calculation and socialisation 3. Libya: diverging responses, interests and norms 4. Somalia: coherent crisis management and collective interests 5. The Sahel: between collective strategy and individual action 6. Comparing crisis responses and explaining variation 7. Conclusion

Nicole Koenig is Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin, Germany.

'The work provides an extensive and thought-provoking assessment of the obstacles to a truly integrated European Common Security and Defence Policy today... Overall, the author uses an innovative approach, offering scholars and students an original and stimulating perspective for reading recent EU developments in security matters.'-Margherita Bianchi, Université libre de Bruxelles, The International Spectator

• 1. Introduction 2. Managing crises – between calculation and socialisation 3. Libya: diverging responses, interests and norms 4. Somalia: coherent crisis management and collective interests 5. The Sahel: between collective strategy and individual action 6. Comparing crisis responses and explaining variation 7. Conclusion

Nicole Koenig is Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin, Germany.

'The work provides an extensive and thought-provoking assessment of the obstacles to a truly integrated European Common Security and Defence Policy today... Overall, the author uses an innovative approach, offering scholars and students an original and stimulating perspective for reading recent EU developments in security matters.'-Margherita Bianchi, Université libre de Bruxelles, The International Spectator

• 1. Introduction 2. Managing crises – between calculation and socialisation 3. Libya: diverging responses, interests and norms 4. Somalia: coherent crisis management and collective interests 5. The Sahel: between collective strategy and individual action 6. Comparing crisis responses and explaining variation 7. Conclusion