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The European Union as Security Community-Building Institution: Venues, Networks and Co-operative Security Practices

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How does the European Union promote security beyond its borders? This article answers this seemingly straightforward question by exploring how the EU works as security community-building institution vis-à-vis non-members. Drawing upon practice theory in International Relations, the article unpacks the security community concept, focusing especially on the relation between co-operative security practices and the expansion of security communities. The article discusses how recent practice-inspired insights can be applied in empirical research to generate novel and interesting results of relevance for EU studies. It does so by recapitulating the main findings from a study on Spanish-Moroccan co-operation on civilian and military crisis management. The findings support the claim that common practice precedes collective identity in processes of security community-building in that the EU has helped bring together and perpetuate a community of security practitioners in the western Mediterranean that builds upon, as well as transcends, already existing bilateral relations.

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  • Niklas Bremberg, 2015. "The European Union as Security Community-Building Institution: Venues, Networks and Co-operative Security Practices," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(3), pages 674-692, May.
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    1. Magnus Ekengren & Simon Hollis, 2020. "Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(3), pages 616-635, May.

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