In the past few years, the European Union has been affected by several terrorist attacks and many states have suffered from this. As a reaction to these terrorist attacks, the EU has adopted through treaties several strategies and measures to tackle the issues of terrorism. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the EU’s security policy between the years 2015 and 2017. Both of the main questions are answered through different theories that are provided for the essay. The first one is formulated to answer if the security policy has successfully been securitized and the other is answered through a perspective of realism and liberalism. Furthermore, the report is a qualitative idea analysis and is based on primary sources. The conclusion of the essay regarding the first question is that a complete securitization of terrorists has been fulfilled after the terrorist attacks in Paris 2015. The result regarding the second question shows that the European security policy has liberal tendencies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-84659 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Sendi, Evin |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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