WP 5 : The changing dynamic of security in an enlarged Europe

This section's articles

• Civil or Military? The Evolving Nature of EU Power

  27 February 2006, by Balzacq Thierry, Muturi Raphael, Palombo Rita
  The aim of the conference is to assess the extent to which potential EU military intervention shapes the international system. How will this evolving military power interact with softer components of its political ambitions in international relations? How might we expect security organisations such as NATO to respond to this pattern of action?

• Changes in the Security concept and the JHA agenda

  20 June 2005, by Centre for European Policy Studies, University of Barcelona
  Concepts of security are based on fear of actual and potential attacks on public authorities, persons and property. The differences arise over what constitutes an attack and the direction from which potential dangers come. Two general changes in conceptions of security are evident over the past decade and a half. First, as the threat of conventional military attack on Western Europe has declined with the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been a blurring of the distinction between internal and external security. This constitutes a radical change because, since the 17th century, the two were regarded as conceptually distinct - the external threat was that of invasion by a hostile power whilst the internal threat was subversion and threats to public order.

• The Changing Dynamic of Security in an Enlarged Europe

  30 November 2004, by Apap Joanna
  Our workpackage will build upon the groundwork being carried out in the ELISE and FORNET projects financed by DG Research under the FP5 programme. This workpackage will also rely closely on the work of Workpackages 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 14 to assess what impact did Europeanisation and the externalisation of internal security bear on structures, methods and contents of the policy-making process in the field of justice and home affairs.