The security governance of the European Union

Mark Webber

Chapter 5 in Handbook of European Union Governance, 2025, pp 67-81 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The European Union occupies a unique place in how security governance is practised and analysed. The EU is simultaneously a referent object of security, a security actor, and a system of security that sits astride a space of security provision and interaction between the EU member states and its institutions. The concept of security governance is a means to understand this complexity. Security practice itself proceeds from a discourse of threats articulated by the EU (co-produced with its member states) and then instantiated in three governance categories: the substantive, the normative, and the empirical. These categories can be evaluated to arrive at a view of the effectiveness of EU security governance. Despite evidence of gridlock, drift, and passivity, the EU retains many positive attributes, not least its continuing role as a contractual security community and bastion of ‘geoliberal Europe’.

Keywords: Security; Governance; European Union; Normative; Substantive; Empirical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925172
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