EU’s Crisis Response Strategy in Light of Global Challenges

The author explores the key aspects of EU‟s crisis response strategy evolution. Special attention is paid to the EU‟s policy countering hybrid threats and promoting cyber security, informationcommunication technology, mediation. The article shows that the EU‟s strategy aimed at creation of modern information-communication infrastructure and digital platforms in different regions of the world significantly broaden the technical capacity of the EU to monitor crisis situations, to take measures for an early prevention of conflicts and to timely forecast potential armed conflicts and optimal parameters of the EU‟s technical assistance for the purpose of development and post-conflict reconstruction of conflict-affected states. The author underlines that the modernization of the EU‟s crisis prevention strategy is driven by the new challenges to global and European security as well as by a profound transformation of modern international relations. Cooperation of the EU and the UN in the sphere of peacekeeping and the EU‟s military operation in the framework of the crisis management strategy has also been analyzed. Specific details of the EU‟s concept of “complex approach” to the crisis prevention strategy have been equally presented in the paper.