Generating policy in a changing governmental environment: how to study security policy in generation?
Generating policy in a changing governmental environment: how to study security policy in generation?

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to deliberate the making of security policy in the EU-context, where national security discourse will increasingly face needs and demands to be melt together with a new kind of security discourse and policy of mainland Europe. By taking the viewpoint of a citizen of a modern nation-state, this paper wants to open the question of how citizens and their values are positioned in relation to the modern state and its security policy within this progress. In particular, as the two latter concepts are in motion towards some new essence. This article claims that the ongoing shaping of the new European security discourse, and values it is argued to contain, appears to citizens to be incoherence, and it seems to contain objectionable ends larger than the one of the original ideas of EU-integration, that is labelled as security through integration,* which expression contains terms like stabilisation, co-operation and interdependency. Secondly, the trend concerning national security policy within the integration process seems to lead to architecture where policy-making is motivated by the purpose and political benefits of the state rather than the benefits of the citizens.

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