THE EUROPEAN UNION'S AID TO REGIONS STRICKEN BY 'SMALL WARS' (Pomoc Unii Europejskiej dla obszarów objetych 'malymi wojnami')

• Authors: Dobrowolska-Polak Joanna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the study was to verify - with regard to the European Union - C. Callwell's assumptions that the world's most powerful/richest states (and their unions) concentrate on their own interests and treat the peripheral - poorer or less stable regions and states - in an instrumental way. The development of contemporary international relations, the conception of solidarity in the first place, seems to falsify this assumption. Analysis of the humanitarian aid offered by the EU (ECHO) shows that its international activity differs from that of other global centres of power. The EU has elaborated its own mechanisms of identifying crises in which the involvement of the hegemonists of the current international order is insignificant or inadequate compared to the scale of needs - the FCA and GNA procedures, which it consistently develops and applies. With their use, the EU is able to identify 'small wars' and transfer its own aid to those places.

Keywords

EN

ECHO; EUROPEAN UNION; FCA AND GNA PROCEDURES; HUMANITARIAN AID; SMALL WARS

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 4(337)
• Pages: 121-138
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dobrowolska-Polak Joanna

• Joanna Dobrowolska-Polak, Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, 61-854 Poznan, ul. Mostowa 27, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA094020