Collective Securitisation And Security Governance In The European Union

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000753035

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Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union by Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber Pdf

Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union presents an integrated theory of collective securitisation – a theoretical foundation for explaining how the process of collective securitisation sustains and makes effective an identifiable system of regional security governance. The volume demonstrates the empirical utility of collective securitisation in the EU security space through a set of structured case studies focusing on the collective securitisation of terrorism, cyberspace, migration, energy, health and climate change. The contributions to this collection address three questions: Under what conditions does collective securitisation occur? How does collective securitisation affect the scope and domains of EU security governance? And how does collective securitisation explain the emergence of the EU system of security governance? This volume breaks new ground in the field of EU security studies and provides a theoretical orientation that contributes to our understanding of how and why the EU has developed as a security actor in the 21st century. Developing and testing the theory of collective securitisation with reference to some of the most pressing contemporary security issues, Collective Securitisation and Security Governance in the European Union will be of great interest to scholars of the European Union and Security Studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Author : Christian Kaunert,Sarah Léonard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000649383

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Collective Securitization and Crisification of EU Policy Change by Christian Kaunert,Sarah Léonard Pdf

This book represents the first attempt to evaluate the first two decades of the EU counterterrorism policy. It aims to assess the collective securitization process in EU counterterrorism, evaluating this as a process between a construction of security threats and the development of supranational governance through crisification. Compared to the lack of shared perception of the terrorist threat and the virtual absence of counterterrorism cooperation amongst European states in the 1970s and 1980s, the existence of EU-wide debates, legislative instruments and practical cooperation nowadays is particularly remarkable. The chapters in this volume explore this change and seek to explain it by drawing upon the concept of ‘collective securitization’. The book posits that EU counterterrorism needs to be analysed as a process driven by collective securitization as part of an ongoing process of crisification that leads to increased supranational governance. The book is both extremely relevant and timely for readers outside the area of research for several reasons. First of all, EU counterterrorism is often argued to be at the forefront of the EU’s response to new security threats. The ‘EU acquis’ on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) has grown significantly over the last years. Consequently, it is crucial and very timely to examine EU counterterrorism – exactly 20 years after the first significant measures were adopted in the wake of 9/11. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Global Affairs.

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1126550546

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Special Issue: The European Union, Security Governance and Collective Securitisation by Sonia Lucarelli,James Sperling,Mark Webber Pdf

Author : George Christou,Stuart Croft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317977933

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European 'Security' Governance by George Christou,Stuart Croft Pdf

This book argues that we can understand and explain the EU as a security and peace actor through a framework of an updated and deepened concept of security governance. It elaborates and develops on the current literature on security governance in order to provide a more theoretically driven analysis of the EU in security. Whilst the current literature on security governance in Europe is conceptually rich, there still remains a gap between those that do 'security governance' and those that focus on 'security' per se. A theoretical framework is constructed with the objective of creating a conversation between these two literatures and the utility of such a framework is demonstrated through its application to the geospatial dimensions of EU security as well as specific cases studies in varied fields of EU security. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Security.

Author : Sonia Lucarelli,Luk van Langenhove,Jan Wouters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415679305

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The EU and Multilateral Security Governance by Sonia Lucarelli,Luk van Langenhove,Jan Wouters Pdf

The EU and Multilateral Security Governance studies the role of the EU in peace and security as a regional actor with global aspirations, in a context of challenged and changing multilateralism. The book examines anddefines the pertinent concept ofmultilateral security governance, which, in spite of being more and more referred to, still needs further clarification and analysis. This bookexamines empirical evidenceto develop further the understanding of ' multilateral security governance' and the EU' s role in it. The EU and ...

Author : Hans-Georg Ehrhart,Hendrik Hegemann,Martin Kahl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317494836

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Putting security governance to the test by Hans-Georg Ehrhart,Hendrik Hegemann,Martin Kahl Pdf

Recent debates in security policy have highlighted trends towards fragmentation, informalisation and privatisation in the diverse field of security policy, with its increasingly transnational security risks. In this context, the concept of security governance has risen to prominence and has inspired much valuable research. Yet, there are not only very different conceptual understandings of security governance; there is also a lack of clarity regarding its empirical manifestations and normative connotations. After a decade of research, this book therefore puts security governance to the test and scrutinises its analytical and political pitfalls and potentials. It reviews the concept of security governance and identifies central conceptual, empirical and normative challenges that need to be addressed. Moreover, this book scrutinises critical examples of security governance from EU security policy as well as in a comparative regional perspective. Case studies include EU efforts to counter piracy off the coast of Somalia, combat terrorism inside European societies and protect critical infrastructures. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Security.

Author : Emil Kirchner,James Sperling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123355310

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EU Security Governance by Emil Kirchner,James Sperling Pdf

EU Security Governance links the challenges of governing Europe's security to the changing nature of the state, the evolutionary expansion of the security agenda, the growing obsolescence of the traditional forms and concepts of security cooperation, and assesses the effectiveness of the EU as a security actor. The book has two distinct features. Firstly, it is the first systematic study of the different economic, political, and military instruments employed by the EU in the performance of four different security functions. Secondly, the book represents an important step towards redressing conceptual gaps in the study of security governance, particularly as it pertains to the European Union. The book demonstrates that the EU has emerged as an important security actor.

Author : Charlotte Wagnsson,James Sperling,Jan Hallenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Security, International
ISBN : 0415848547

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European Security Governance by Charlotte Wagnsson,James Sperling,Jan Hallenberg Pdf

This book focuses on the problems of, and prospects for, strengthening the global system of security governance in a manner consistent with the aspirations and practices of the EU. The EU approach to security governance has been successful in its immediate neighbourhood: it has successfully exported its preferred norms and principles to applicant countries, thereby 'pacifying' its immediate neighbourhood and making all of Europe more secure. The EU governance orientation ultimately seeks to enlarge the European security community and expand the geopolitical area within which armed conflicts are inconceivable, and where state and private actors converge around a set of norms and rules of behaviour and engagement. The EU's success along its immediate boundaries has not yet been replicated on a global scale; it remains an open question whether the EU system of governance can be exported globally, owing to different normative structures (for example, a tolerance of armed conflict or non-democratic governance internally), great-power competition (such as US--China), or ongoing processes of securitization that has made it difficult to find a commonly accepted definition of security. Moreover, the EU system of security governance clashes with the continuing unwillingness of other major powers to cede or pool sovereignty as well as varying preferences for unilateral as opposed to multilateral forms of statecraft. This edited volume addresses both the practical and political aspects of security governance and the barriers to the globalization of the EU system of security governance, particularly in the multipolar post-Cold War era. This book will be of great interest to students of security governance, EU politics, European Security and IR in general. James Sperling is Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA. Jan Hallenberg is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Security and Strategic Studies, Swedish National Defence College. Charlotte Wagnsson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic and Security Studies at the Swedish National Defence College.

Author : Ursula C. Schroeder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136745232

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The Organization of European Security Governance by Ursula C. Schroeder Pdf

'European Security Governance in Transition' assesses whether the transformation of Europe's security architecture has kept pace with the rapid blurring of lines between internal and external security challenges. It analyses the emergence of horizontal and comprehensive forms of security governance in Europe.

Author : Oldrich Bures
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317140412

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EU Counterterrorism Policy by Oldrich Bures Pdf

Although there is a vast body of literature covering the ongoing debates concerning the novelty and gravity of the contemporary terrorist threat, as well as the most appropriate response to it, few authors have thus far analysed the complex set of counterterrorism measures that both the individual Member States and the European Union (EU) have attempted to develop. This volume offers a critical analysis of the measures the European Union has taken to combat terrorism and how, in a number of key areas, EU counterterrorism policy is more of a paper tiger than an effective counterterrorism device. Several legal EU counterterrorism instruments have not been properly implemented at the national level and questions have been raised regarding their effectiveness, appropriateness, and proportionality. The capabilities of EU agencies in the area of counterterrorism remain rather weak and the EU Counterterrorism Coordinator does not have any real powers apart from persuasion. However, this does not mean that EU level action cannot offer any value-added in the fight against terrorism. There are several areas where the EU can provide genuine value-added in the fight against terrorism due to the transnational nature of the contemporary terrorist threat and the nature of a borderless Europe.

Author : Spyros Economides
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367338793

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Eu Security Strategies by Spyros Economides Pdf

"This volume offers a coherent analysis of the European Union's security strategies within a comparative framework. If the EU is to survive and prosper as an effective security actor, it requires that greater attention be devoted to striking a cohesive and common position on the relationship between EU foreign policy means and goals. The major claim of this edited collection is that there is a European grand security strategy that disciplines member state security strategies. That grand strategy has two distinct substantive goals: the preservation and expansion of the EU system of security governance and the implementation of specific strategies to meet internal and external threats and sources of insecurity. The EU has sought to develop a grand security strategy that not only accounts for the proliferation of threats possessing a military or non-military character and differentiates between core and peripheral regions of interest, but also addresses the requirements for bridging the increasingly blurred boundary between internal and external security threats and the necessary reconciliation of the competing security preferences of its member states. The empirical contributions to this volume, which examine EU security strategies for specific issue-areas and regional threat complexes, demonstrate that EU policies have shaped national policies and has as its primary objective the preservation and expansion of the EU system of security governance. The volume integrates a 'new' EU security strategy into the analysis to determine whether and to what extent it reinforces the successes or overcomes the limitations of the current set of security strategies governing the EU and its member states"--

Author : Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521891116

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Regions and Powers by Barry Buzan,Ole Wæver Pdf

This book develops the idea that since decolonisation, regional patterns of security have become more prominent in international politics. The authors combine an operational theory of regional security with an empirical application across the whole of the international system. Individual chapters cover Africa, the Balkans, CIS Europe, East Asia, EU Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, and South Asia. The main focus is on the post-Cold War period, but the history of each regional security complex is traced back to its beginnings. By relating the regional dynamics of security to current debates about the global power structure, the authors unfold a distinctive interpretation of post-Cold War international security, avoiding both the extreme oversimplifications of the unipolar view, and the extreme deterritorialisations of many globalist visions of a new world disorder. Their framework brings out the radical diversity of security dynamics in different parts of the world.

Author : Gabriella Lazaridis,Khursheed Wadia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137480583

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The Securitisation of Migration in the EU by Gabriella Lazaridis,Khursheed Wadia Pdf

Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categories come to be seen as agents of social instability or as potential terrorists. Treating migration as a security threat has therefore increased insecurity amongst migrant and ethnic minority populations.

Author : Javier Argomaniz,Oldrich Bures,Christian Kaunert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317378952

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EU Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence by Javier Argomaniz,Oldrich Bures,Christian Kaunert Pdf

The Treaty on the European Union stipulates that one of the key objectives of the Union is to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Given that the fight against terrorism is a prominent aspect of this general objective, it is remarkable that, in spite of its political relevance and decade-long history, it has only relatively recently received due attention in the academic community. Yet an analysis of the successes and failures of the EU's involvement in this field is imperative and this is a particularly pertinent moment to take stock of progress. The goal of this book is therefore to look back at the post-9/11 period and answer the question of whether, when it comes to the measures taken to combat terrorism following these attacks, the EU has lived up to the promise made in its founding treaties. In pursuing this goal, this volume presents the views of leading experts casting a critical eye over the EU's performance, recognising achievements but also being suitably critical when the realities did not match the European rhetoric. In doing this, the book makes a significant contribution not only to the scholarly investigation of European Union policies, but also to the study of counter-terrorism in general. This book was published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

Author : Alan Bryden,Marina Caparini
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3825898407

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Private Actors and Security Governance by Alan Bryden,Marina Caparini Pdf

The privatization of security understood as both the top-down decision to outsource military and security-related tasks to private firms and the bottom-up activities of armed non-state actors such as rebel opposition groups, insurgents, militias, and warlord factions has implications for the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Both top-down and bottom-up privatization have significant consequences for effective, democratically accountable security sector governance as well as on opportunities for security sector reform across a range of different reform contexts. This volume situates security privatization within a broader policy framework, considers several relevant national and regional contexts, and analyzes different modes of regulation and control relating to a phenomenon with deep historical roots but also strong links to more recent trends of globalization and transnationalization. Alan Bryden is deputy head of research at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). Marina Caparini is senior research fellow at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).