The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?

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Croatian International Relations Review, Vol. 22 No. 75, 2016.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?

Brendan Flynn ; School of Political Science & Sociology, NUIG

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APA 6th Edition

Flynn, B. (2016). The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?. Croatian International Relations Review, 22 (75), 9-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

MLA 8th Edition

Flynn, Brendan. "The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?." Croatian International Relations Review, vol. 22, no. 75, 2016, pp. 9-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

Chicago 17th Edition

Flynn, Brendan. "The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?." Croatian International Relations Review 22, no. 75 (2016): 9-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

Harvard

Flynn, B. (2016). 'The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?', Croatian International Relations Review, 22(75), pp. 9-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

Vancouver

Flynn B. The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?. Croatian International Relations Review [Internet]. 2016 [cited 2024 November 24];22(75):9-37. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

IEEE

B. Flynn, "The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?", Croatian International Relations Review, vol.22, no. 75, pp. 9-37, 2016. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.1515/cirr-2016-0001

Abstract

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.

Keywords

European Union; maritime security strategy; hard and soft conceptions

Hrčak ID:

162865

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/162865

Publication date:

3.8.2016.

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