European Security Culture

Programme group Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance

This NWO funded project researches contemporary security culture in Europe with a focus on the preventative and preemptive approach to fighting terrorism and other 'new threats'.

NWO, 2011-2015

With an interdisciplinary focus that bridges the social sciences and humanities, researchers on this project will undertake a number of empirical case studies that interrogate historical and contemporary dynamics of security culture in Europe and will advance theoretical debates on the power relations that underpin preemptive and exceptional security logics.

The European Security Culture project seeks to establish firm historical and contemporary understandings of threat and security conceptualizations in Europe and the EU and policy outcomes and directives in the EU's fight against terrorism.

Rather than taking an institutional approach, this project interrogates the cultures through which security policies are conceived and enacted.

The project's analysis of European security culture contributes to understanding of the confluence of security practice and European civil society and lends a measure of transparency to the climate of European securitization.

Published by  AISSR

31 July 2013