EU security practices in Eastern Europe: Extending European peace or managing risks?
Journal: Econstor (Econstor)
Year: 2015

This paper captures the contradictions at the heart of the European Union's (EU) security approach in Eastern Europe and reveals their implications in practice. The EU's security approach towards the states at its Eastern borders has been characterized by pervasive ambiguity, oscillating between inclusiveness and a normative/duty narrative and a securitizing perspective that advances a threat/risk narrative. Caught between these diverging narratives and the practices they inspire, the EU's polic