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Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis

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In recent years, nation-states have encountered a rapidly changing environment marked by the onset of various threats. These threats range from terrorism to epidemics, from shifting international relations to the breakdown of the financial system, from climate change to cyber attacks. We live in a world where ‘black swans’ and ‘mega crises’ can strike any time (Taleb, 2007; Helsloot et al., 2012). These new threats and impending crises bring to the fore a specific set of political and administrative challenges that are hard to address (OECD, 2003, 2011; Boin et al., 2005; Boin, 2009).

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  1. Sanneke Kuipers
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  1. Europa Universität Viadrina, Germany

    Raphael Bossong

  2. Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg, Germany

    Hendrik Hegemann

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Kuipers, S., Boin, A. (2015). Exploring the EU’s Role as Transboundary Crisis Manager: The Facilitation of Sense-Making during the Ash Crisis. In: Bossong, R., Hegemann, H. (eds) European Civil Security Governance. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481115_9

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