Contemporary European Security

This fully updated and expanded second edition of Contemporary European Security explores the complex contemporary European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject. Written by experts in each subfield, it addresses key topics within the wider strategic context of international security.

Presenting traditional and critical debates to illuminate this ever-changing field, it addresses specifically:

• The post WWII history of European security.
• Theoretical approaches to European Security, including realism, liberalism, social constructivism and critical security studies.
• How Feminist, Post- and Decolonial scholars address European security.
• The evolving roles of Europe’s security institutions (NATO, EU and OSCE).
• Russia’s role in European security and insecurity.
• European strategic autonomy, including its conceptualisation, theoretical underpinnings, and evolution.
• Internal security, covering the concept, governance and challenges of non-military threats, including organised crime, irregular migration, terrorism as well as cybercrime and civil protection.
• The interconnection between the challenges of climate change, energy security and environmental degradation, with a focus on the EU.
• The resurgence of military threats to European security from both the East and the South, highlighting how the EU and NATO have tried to address them.
• European military innovation through historical, geopolitical and strategic contextual trends.

This essential textbook will be of key interests to students and scholars of European Security, Security and Military studies, Strategic Studies, European Politics and International Relations.