The crisisification of EU administration: A study of crisis logics entering the policy logics of the framings of the proposed Anti-Coercion Instrument
2023 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis sought to examine a case where the rule-based international trade system lacks following, and the EU seeks defence against third-countries trying to coerce it through trade and economic measures. Such economic coercion has left the EU and its Member States with feelings of uncertainty, vulnerability and the need to reposition geopolitically. Previous literature highlights the problems that international crises pose, and has delved deeply into EU administration as well as the EU’s national and international crisis management capabilities. However, this thesis identifies a gap in the research of EU-level transboundary crisis management, trade policy and the usage of classification theory on an ordinary legislative case (Rhinard, 2019). Crisisification emphasises how crisis logics are entering normal policy logics in the EU, which opens up questions about legitimacy and dependable policy-making. Thus, the thesis applies this novel theoretical framework to European Commission working-documents and communications related to the proposed Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI). It uses framing analysis to analyse the four main traits of crisisification in the empirical material, namely: finding the next urgent event, speedy decision-making, novel constellations of actors and new narratives of European governance. The thesis concludes that crisisification is not fully present in the ACI, but that it shows some attributes of crisis logics: sense of urgency, requiring swift action, geopolitical pivoting and policy entrepreneurship.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. , p. 46
Keywords [en]
crisisification, anti-coercion instrument, trade policy, crisis management, EU administration, EU
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-11578OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-11578DiVA, id: diva2:1765251
Subject / course
Political Science with a focus on Crisis Management and Security
Educational program
Master's programme in Politics, Security and War
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
Examiners
2023-06-142023-06-092023-06-14Bibliographically approved