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Cooperation in EU disaster response and security provision: circulating practices
Ist Teil von
European security (London, England), 2015-10, Vol.24 (4), p.560-578
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
There is a profound disconnect between the practice and scholarly study of security in Europe. The 2010 Internal Security Strategy added disasters such as forest fires, earthquakes, and floods to the list of European Union (EU) internal security concerns, expanding on the more traditional anxieties over militaries, border protection, and the effects of poverty. This article explores how evolving practices of disaster response, a policy area once separate from EU security discourse, have become part of the EU's wider security provision and with what implications. Based on interviews conducted at the Directorate-General (DG) for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), it provides a detailed study of three EU disaster response practices - monitoring, training, and information co-ordinating - and their circulation to the wider field of EU internal security provision. It uses this case to outline that new understandings of what it means to "voluntarily co-operate" in European security projects have been radically under-theorized.