1 Making sense of the EU’s responses to the Arab spring: overlaps of discourse and practice in times of crisis Paper prepared for the panel ‘Re-assessing the politics of representing the “Arab Spring”’ International Studies Association (ISA) 55 th Annual Meeting 26-29 March 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada Niklas Bremberg, Ph.D. Swedish Institute of International Affairs niklas.bremberg@ui.se DRAFT PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE COMMENTS MOST WELCOME