Download or read book International Crisis Management written by Marc Houben and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, crisis management has become essential to achieving and maintaining national security. This book offers a comparative analysis of the preconditions and constraints nine European states place on their participation in international crisis management operations and the important consequences of such decisions, and provides a theoretical framework to help the reader understand this complex decision-making process.