Preventing Conflict, Managing Crisis: European and American Perspectives

Over the past two decades the United States and Europe have engaged actively in efforts to prevent conflict and to manage crises around the world. How effective have such efforts been, and how could they be improved? This volume offers recommendations and applies them to specific case studies. In includes a Crisis Management Toolbox that outlines the key principles, actors, and instruments guiding such efforts.

Eva Gross is a senior fellow and head of the research cluster on "European Foreign andSecurity Policy" at the Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Daniel S. Hamilton is director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations and executive director of the American Consortium on EU Studies. Claudia Major is deputy head of the International Security division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Henning Riecke is head of the USA/Transatlantic Program at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin.