This book examines the emergence of the European Union's Integrated Approach to External Conflicts and Crises as one of the central concepts of the EU Global Strategy. Proposing a focus on the community of CFSP/CSDP practitioners, Diego Borrajo explores the constitution of the EU as a security provider by tracing the way the integrated approach has been progressively defined and incorporated into the EU policy documents, roadmaps and practices, shaping therefore a genuine European security governance architecture. The author argues that the history of the EU integrated approach not only provides evidence of how the EU aims to respond to conflicts and crises, shapes international structures, promotes its values and defends its interests, but also provides insights about how the EU's authoritative community of security experts and policymakers has a major impact on shaping the narratives and knowledge that inform the EU actorness in external action.