Cooperation under Diversity? Exploring Cultural and Institutional Diversity in European Civil Security Governance

Abstract

The recent increase in EU activities for crisis and disaster management has led to the emergence of a hybrid EU policy space for civil security governance (see Bossong and Hegemann in the introduction). As demonstrated in other contributions to this volume, the EU has created a growing number of institutions, policies and best practices to protect its citizens from various risks. This emerging field has been cast as an ambivalent mix of policies and institutions trying to reconcile the imperative for transnational cooperation and solidarity in the face of increasingly complex transboundary crises with the need to respect national desires for sovereignty and subsidiarity (Ekengren et al., 2006; Boin et al., 2013b; Kirchner et al., 2014).