TY - JOUR
T1 - The EU's Maritime Security Strategy
T2 - A Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?
AU - Flynn, Brendan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Mercedes Rosello, published by De Gruyter Open 2016.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - This paper offers a critical interpretation of the EU's recent Maritime Security Strategy (MSS) of 2014, making distinctions between hard and soft conceptions of maritime security. The theoretical approach employed invokes the 'EU as neo-medieval empire' (Bull 1977: 254-255; Rennger 2006; Zielonka 2006). By this account, the main objectives of EU maritime strategy are stability and encouragement of globalised maritime trade flows to be achieved using the classic instruments of 'soft maritime security'. While replete with great possibilities, the EU's maritime security strategy is likely to be a relatively weak maritime security regime, which suffers from a number of important limits.
AB - This paper offers a critical interpretation of the EU's recent Maritime Security Strategy (MSS) of 2014, making distinctions between hard and soft conceptions of maritime security. The theoretical approach employed invokes the 'EU as neo-medieval empire' (Bull 1977: 254-255; Rennger 2006; Zielonka 2006). By this account, the main objectives of EU maritime strategy are stability and encouragement of globalised maritime trade flows to be achieved using the classic instruments of 'soft maritime security'. While replete with great possibilities, the EU's maritime security strategy is likely to be a relatively weak maritime security regime, which suffers from a number of important limits.
KW - European Union
KW - hard and soft conceptions
KW - maritime security strategy
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U2 - 10.1515/cirr-2016-0001
DO - 10.1515/cirr-2016-0001
M3 - Review article
SN - 1848-5782
VL - 22
SP - 9
EP - 38
JO - Croatian International Relations Review
JF - Croatian International Relations Review
IS - 75
ER -