How the Security Dimension Triggered the Modifications of the European/EU Borders and what were the Subsequent Consequences? An ex post 100 years Perspective
How the Security Dimension Triggered the Modifications of the European/EU Borders and what were the Subsequent Consequences? An ex post 100 years Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Within the current research we shall make an endeavour to analyse how the need for security contributed to the appearance of new frontiers in Europe after the end of the First and Second World War and how in today’s Europe/EU security unfolds as a result of appearance of frontiers. We believe that the need for security contributes to the change and emergence of new frontiers (border walls, barriers), and the change of borders (through enlargements, the European integration process, the elimination of the borders between the Member States of the Community/European Union and the creation of an external border with third countries) as a counter-effect leads to the generation of other security concerns in the European Union, including the fear of illegal immigrants, terrorism, smuggling, criminal groups, demanding and justifying increased securitization of the external borders. More precisely we wish to highlight how the subsequent modification of frontiers after the end of WWI/WW2 and the establishment of a border free regime as part of the European integration process led to the creation of an internal Schengen security dilemma and the securitization of the Community’s external borders and subsequently the securitization of migration, in this equation the need for security appearing in a causation nexus, as a result of the emergence of a border free regime within Schengen.

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