1st Edition

The EU and the European Security Order Interfacing Security Actors

By Rikard Bengtsson Copyright 2010
192 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This book attempts to conceptualise EU action in the field of regional security. Drawing on constructivist theory, the framework of the book focuses on the meeting - or 'interface' - of actors, a situation reflecting the mutual construction of self, other and situation. The analytical framework applied here to European security politics is potentially open-ended as the theoretical... Read more

Part 1: Introduction and Analytical Framework  1. Introduction  2. Analytical Framework  Part 2: Neighbourhood Interfaces  3. EU Recognition of the Neighbourhood  4. Post-Soviet Interfaces  5. Mediterranean Interfaces  Part 3: Great Power Interfaces  6. The Baltic Interface  7. The Transatlantic Interface  Part 4: Conclusions  8. Conclusions.  Bibliography

Biography

Rikard Bengtsson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. He has a PhD in Political Science, from Lund University, Sweden.