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The EU and the Evolving Concepts of Security. Emil J. Kirchner University of Essex. Perception of most important threats (top five). Preferred responses to threats. EU importance for specific security threats (rank-ordered).
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The EU and the Evolving Concepts of Security Emil J. Kirchner University of Essex
Distinction between Westphalian (WS) or post-Westphalian (PWS) helps to explain why states exhibit disparate understandings of threat, the agents of threat and the best means for ameliorating them. • PWS and WS seek alternative forms of security and practice alternative forms of statecraft (multipolarity versus unipolarity) • Difference over the extent to which states are seen as homogenous, or penetrated through interdependence and the role of non-state actors, such as the EU.