Europeiska Unionens vidgade säkerhetsbegrepp i relation till terrorism : En systematiserande undersökning om hur EU:s hotbild av terrorism har förändrats sedan terrorattacken på USA 2001. / The European Unions broaden security concept in relation to terrorism : A systematic study on how the Euroean Union view of terrorism has changed since the 2001 terrorist attack.

Description

Most of the European citizen can today live their lives in relative security. At the same time our communities are faced with more and greater security threats than ever. Terrorism has risen to become one of the greatest security threats to the European union and its citizens and one can therefore ask the question; has the European Union view of terrorism changed over time or has the interpretation of the threat been constant?                       The purpose of this essay is thus to analyse how the European Union describe and see the threat of terrorism before and after the attack on the United States 2001. The analytical instrument of the essay consist of Buzan et al. (1998) Securitization Theory that enables extraordinary measures to be used in the name of security. Furthermore, the essay is a systematic study and the material consist of documents from the European Union.

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Tags

European Union

Security

Terrorism

Cooperation

Security Threats

Europeiska Unionen

terrorism

samarbete

säkerhet

säkerhetshot

Social Sciences

Samhällsvetenskap

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-77535
Date	January 2018
Creators	Wäppling, Louise
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