A European Comprehensive Approach

This article seeks to assess how the rivalries between European players withinthe external policy field have shaped a European model of crisis managementin Somalia. Drawing on data collected in the field through interviews, this articleadvocates for taking into account the conflictual strategies of European actorsin European foreign policy analysis. In this context, two results are elaboratedto explain some of the specificities of the European approach, respectively onthe autonomy of the humanitarian policy and on the strategic objectives of theEU’s action in Somalia.