Why EU promotion is at odds with successful crisis management : public relations, news coverage, and the Aceh Monitoring Mission

• Main Author: Anderson, Stephanie
• Other Authors: EU Centre in Singapore
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: European Union policies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103753; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19399
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and its accompanying Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions can be tools used to increase the international profile of the European Union. Nevertheless, CSDP missions garner little news coverage. This article argues that the very nature...