From the ESS to the EU global strategy: External policy, internal purpose
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From the ESS to the EU global strategy : External policy, internal purpose. / Mälksoo, M.
In: Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2016, p. 374-388.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - From the ESS to the EU global strategy
T2 - External policy, internal purpose
AU - Mälksoo, M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Security strategies are important sites for narrating the EU into existence as a security actor. The unveiling of a new global strategy on foreign and security policy for the EU immediately post-Brexit could be conceived as a pledge to remain together as a Union for the purposes of contributing to global security in a particular way. This paper offers a brief stock-taking of the EU’s way of writing security from the European Security Strategy (2003) to the EU Global Strategy (2016). A concise exegesis of these documents exposes an interesting dynamic: as exercises in ordering the world, both strategic guidelines have turned out to be major exercises in ordering the self. The comparative snapshot shows the EU as increasingly anxious to prove its relevance for its own citizens, yet notably less confident about its actual convincingness as an ontological security framework for the EU’s constituent members over time.
AB - Security strategies are important sites for narrating the EU into existence as a security actor. The unveiling of a new global strategy on foreign and security policy for the EU immediately post-Brexit could be conceived as a pledge to remain together as a Union for the purposes of contributing to global security in a particular way. This paper offers a brief stock-taking of the EU’s way of writing security from the European Security Strategy (2003) to the EU Global Strategy (2016). A concise exegesis of these documents exposes an interesting dynamic: as exercises in ordering the world, both strategic guidelines have turned out to be major exercises in ordering the self. The comparative snapshot shows the EU as increasingly anxious to prove its relevance for its own citizens, yet notably less confident about its actual convincingness as an ontological security framework for the EU’s constituent members over time.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - European Union
KW - European Security Strategy
KW - EU Global Strategy
KW - ontological security
KW - identity
KW - status-seeking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84990935701&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1080/13523260.2016.1238245
DO - 10.1080/13523260.2016.1238245
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 374
EP - 388
JO - Contemporary Security Policy
JF - Contemporary Security Policy
SN - 1352-3260
IS - 3
ER -
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