Co-Managing International Crises

Judgments and Justifications

Markus Kornprobst

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108496407
• eBook ISBN: 9781108753494
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Markus Kornprobst examines the common assumption that states usually respond to crises individually, rather than together. He develops an innovative approach to analyse how crisis co-management comes to succeed or fail. He argues that actors draw from repertoires of taken-for-granted ideas, forming a set of pre-judgments. These are then revisited in justificatory encounters, making various degrees of co-management possible or impossible. This judging and justifying in turn leaves an impression on repertoires put to use for co-managing the next crisis. The author uses this model to analyse the attempts by France, Germany and the United Kingdom to co-manage the crises in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He links individual reasoning and communication, paving the way for further research into crisis co-management, and providing novel insights into European attempts to act in international affairs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 Judgements and Justifications
• 2 Constellation
• 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 4 Kosovo
• 5 Afghanistan
• 6 Iraq
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index