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Title: | Blurring the dividing line : the convergence of internal and external security in Western Europe |
Authors: | Lutterbeck, Derek |
Keywords: | Security, International -- Europe, Western National security -- Europe, Western Europe, Western -- Foreign relations Europe, Western -- Defenses |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | Routlegde |
Citation: | Lutterbeck, D. (2005). Blurring the dividing line: The convergence of internal and external security in Western Europe. European Security, 14(2), 231-253. |
Abstract: | A distinctive feature of the security landscape in western Europe of the post-Cold War era is that the dividing line between internal and external security has become increasingly obsolete—mainly as a consequence of the growing importance of transnational as well as other challenges to security which defy the distinction between domestic and international security. This article examines this convergence of internal and external security agendas from the perspective of the coercive apparatus of western European countries, pointing to a militarisation and externalisation of policing, and an internalisation and ‘policisation’ of soldiering: while police forces are taking on military characteristics, and are extending their activities beyond the borders of the state, military forces are turning to internal security missions, and are adopting certain police features. Moreover, agencies which have traditionally been located at the interface between police and military forces, i.e. gendarmerie-type or paramilitary forces, are assuming an increasingly important role. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/90441 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsMADS |
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