The EU and the Evolving Concepts of Security

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The EU and the Evolving Concepts of Security

• Emil J. Kirchner
• University of Essex

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Perception of most important threats (top five)
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Preferred responses to threats
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EU importance for specific security threats
(rank-ordered)
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• Distinction between Westphalian (WS) or
  post-Westphalian (PWS) helps to explain why
  states exhibit disparate understandings of
  threat, the agents of threat and the best means
  for
• ameliorating them.
• PWS and WS seek alternative forms of security
• and practice alternative forms of statecraft
  (multipolarity versus unipolarity)
• Difference over the extent to which states are
• seen as homogenous, or penetrated through
  interdependence and the role of non-state
• actors, such as the EU.

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Is the EU a Post-Westphalian System?
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EU Budgets for Policies of Prevention
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Type and Strength of Civilian ESDP Missions
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ESDP Military Missions