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Crisisification and Strategic Compass

Crisisification et la Boussole Strategique

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To improve its capacity building, cohesion and effectiveness in the international arena, the EU would like to strengthen the capacity for crisis prevention, intervention and management, through the Strategic Compass. A decision-making method oriented, above all, to crisis response and prevention is already present alongside “traditional” EU decision-making method – i.e., based on long consultations with stakeholders, a long process of mediation and balance between positions to achieve solutions based on consensus and long-term policies. This phenomenon – this change in the nature of the processes by which collective decisions are made – is called crisisification by Mark Rhinard: it consists in ‘finding the next urgent event, prioritizing speed in decision-making, ushering in new constellations of concerned actors and emphasizing new narratives of what matters in European governance’ (Rhinard 2019). According to the discourse of the EU institutions (EEAS 2021), past and, above all, future crises play an essential role in the construction of the Strategic Compass and the “next CSDP”: this could mean that crisisificaiton could, potentially, “prevail” on the traditional method of decision-making, reshaping the (self)representation of the EU role as foreign policy actor and the political processes (internal and external, formal and informal) of CSDP. To do this, the CSDP political discourse arising from the last three decades of political debate – e.g., EU as "civilian power" (Telò 2006), "slow power" etc. – must be first "reform" through a reframing operation which has already begun with the publication of the European Union Global Strategy in 2016 (EUGS) but which could “change gear” with the adoption and publication of the Strategic Compass. More in detail, framing consists of ‘promot[ing] a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation and/or treatment recommendation. [...] Frames diagnose, evaluate and prescribe’ (Entman 1993). Through the comparative analysis of the CSDP documents and official speeches (starting from the EUGS up to the Strategic Compass), this communication questions the main reframing elements of the CSDP discourse arising from the Strategic Compass, how these could impact the self-representation of European actors (governments and institutions) in the international arena and how (and how much) these changes could potentially lead to a crisisification of the CSDP – with important consequences on the identity of European foreign policy and the resulting political processes.
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hal-03770316 , version 1 (06-09-2022)

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Marcello Ciola. Crisisification and Strategic Compass: reframing the (self)representation of EU role in international arena?. UACES 2022 Conference, Sep 2022, Lille, France. ⟨hal-03770316⟩
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