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The role of institutionalized cross-border cooperation in European transboundary crisis-responses : the case of euroregions along DE-NL border
Gschrey, Sebastian Vincent (2022) The role of institutionalized cross-border cooperation in European transboundary crisis-responses : the case of euroregions along DE-NL border.
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| Abstract: | The nature of crisis and crisis-management is changing. Since 2000, Europe experienced several transboundary crises (Boin 2009). The SARS outbreak from 2003, the financial crisis from 2008, the refugee crisis from 2015 and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the transnational nature of these crises the crisis-management competences within the European Union largely remain with the Member States. With different degree of centralization in national systems crisis-management competences often lie on the national, subnational, or regional level resulting in a multilevel governance structure in European transboundary crisis-responses. Since transboundary crises , like the current Covid-19 pandemic, easily cross geographical, political, and legal boundaries this means that many (inter)national actors are involved in the crisis-management process. Without supranational coordination critical information is hidden in technical concepts, clashing paradigms and different languages (Boin 2019). This paper researches the influence of institutionalized cross-border cooperation (ICBC) on the transboundary crisis response of Germany and the Netherlands. It argues that established ICBC can booster the effectiveness of a transboundary crisis response by providing crisis-managers with additional organizational capacity to enhance their sensemaking, response coordination and meaning making capacities. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 89 political science |
| Programme: | European Studies MSc (69303) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/90576 |
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