The Ukraine Crisis (2014) and the EU's Foreign Policy Apparatus
Year: 2024

This chapter analyses the structural and institutional adaptations of the EU in the area of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) related to the 2014 crisis in Ukraine (especially, the annexation of Crimea by Russia), arguing that the EU has not become more structurally differentiated as a result of this organisational learning process. Rather, further differentiation (understood as the differentiating effects of a shock) and fragmentation were prevented precisely because the EU demonstr