Politicising European security: from technocratic to contentious politics?

Security provision in and by the EU has become an issue of increasing public interest and controversy. There are diverse and growing demands and critiques from different political camps towards the EU while EU institutions, in turn, utilise their security function as a resource for authority constru...

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Published in:European security (London, England) England), 2019-04, Vol.28 (2), p.133-152
Main Authors: Hegemann, Hendrik, Schneckener, Ulrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accession
Camps
Crises
EU security policy
European integration
Identity
Legitimation
National security
Political institutions
politicisation
Politics
Public interest
securitisation
Sovereignty
Technocracy
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Summary:Security provision in and by the EU has become an issue of increasing public interest and controversy. There are diverse and growing demands and critiques from different political camps towards the EU while EU institutions, in turn, utilise their security function as a resource for authority construction and self-legitimation. More recently, European security has also become intertwined with contemporary "crises" that turned it into an arena for the negotiation of fundamental conflicts, often revolving around questions of identity and sovereignty. This paper argues that these developments represent a significant change of European security and its politics that existing approaches linking the field to depoliticisation cannot adequately capture. To fill this gap, this paper suggests applying a politicisation perspective that, so far, has focused on the European integration project as such or the "Eurozone crisis" to the purportedly special security field.
ISSN:0966-2839
1746-1545
DOI:10.1080/09662839.2019.1624533