Introduction. European Security and Transatlantic Relations in the Age of International Terrorism: Challenges for the Nordic Countries

Power, Principles and Procedures. French Foreign Policy towards the USA (2001-2003)

Power, Principles and Procedures : Reinterpreting French foreign policy towards the USA (2001-2003)

French foreign policy towards the US is often understood as particularly confrontational and based on traditional power politics, or a wish to re-establish “la grandeur de la France”. This article aims at investigating the validity of this widely held view. It further seeks to provide a more comprehensive...

EU Security Policy: Contrasting Rationalism and Social Constructivism

There are two very different stories that can be told about EU security policy during 2003. On the one hand, some argue that the deep division among important EU countries in relation to the Iraq war is a final confirmation of the absence of an EU security policy. On the other hand, some argue that the...

L’élargissement de l’Union Européenne – Une perspective Norvégienne

Europeanisation of Nordic Security? The EU and the Changing Security Identities of the Nordic states”. Cooperation and Conflict

Introduksjon: Supermakt?

Konklusjon: Et bredt sikkerhetspolitisk konsept

En annerledes supermakt? Sikkerhets- og forsvarspolitikken i EU

”EUs kamp mot terrorisme”. Internasjonal Politikk

From territorial defence to comprehensive security? European integration and the changing Norwegian and Swedish security identities

This paper analyses the relationship between the European integration process and the recent changes in the Norwegian and the Swedish national security identities. The aim of the paper is to compare developments in the Norwegian and the Swedish security identities in the 1990s and to evaluate the extent...

The Europeanisation of Norway's Security Identity

In this working paper Pernille Rieker looks into the relationship between the European integration process and changes in Norway’s national security identity. Has the dominant national discourse on security changed since the early 1990s? If so, how are these changes related to the recent acceleration...

Security, integration and identity change

In this working paper Pernille Rieker attempts to contribute to a better understanding of both how the EU functions as a security system and what kind of impact the integration process has on national security identities. While security has always been the main reason behind the integration process,...

Fransk NATO-politikk