EU Crisis Management in Berlin: The Fall of Ministerial Walls?

The EU's civilian and military crisis management operations have grown in number, complexity, and geographical outreach. In the absence of EU-level capabilities, the success of EU external crisis management is highly dependent on the timely delivery of national financial, human, and material resources. This has posed challenges to national administrations, not least for a big member state such as Germany. The article provides a theoretical tool to measure processes of administrative Europeanisation and applies it to the case of Germany. It assesses German administrative change, clarifies the depth and origin of adaptation and concludes on the general institutional impact of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) during the first 10 years of its existence.