European 'Security' Governance

This book argues that we can understand and explain the EU as a security and peace actor through a framework of an updated and deepened concept of security governance. It elaborates and develops on the current literature on security governance in order to provide a more theoretically driven analysis of the EU in security. Whilst the current literature on security governance in Europe is conceptually rich, there still remains a gap between those that do 'security governance' and those that focus on 'security' per se. A theoretical framework is constructed with the objective of creating a conversation between these two literatures and the utility of such a framework is demonstrated through its application to the geospatial dimensions of EU security as well as specific cases studies in varied fields of EU security. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Security.

1. Introduction George Christou andStuart Croft 2. European Union Security Governance: Putting the 'Security' Back In George Christou,Stuart Croft, Michela Ceccorulli andSonia Lucarelli 3. Theorising the EU's Role in Regional Conflict Management Michael Schulz andFredrik Söderbaum 4. The EU's Logic of Security: Politics through Institutionalised Discourses Sebastian Barnutz 5. Experimenting in the Northern Laboratory: The Emergence of an EU Approach to Security Governance in the North and its Broader Significance Christopher S. Browning 6. European Union Security Logics to the East: The European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership George Christou 7. The European Union, Security and the Southern Dimension Michelle Pace 8. Constructing Crises, (In)Securitising Terror: The Punctuated Evolution of EU Counter-Terror Strategy Oz Hassan 9. European Union Discourses and Practices on the Iranian Nuclear ProgrammeRuth Hanau Santini 10. Security and Migration: The Development of the Eastern Dimension Michela Ceccorulli 11. Europe and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process: The Urgency of Now Joel Peters

George Christou is Associate Professor in European Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Stuart Croft is Professor of International Security, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.