Preliminary communication
Generating policy in a changing governmental environment: how to study security policy in generation?
Veikko Heinonen
; PhD student, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Univeristy of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to deliberate the making of security policy in the EU-context, where national security discourse will increasingly face needs and demands to be melt together with a new kind of security discourse and policy of mainland Europe.
By taking the viewpoint of a citizen of a modern nation-state, this paper wants to open the question of how citizens and their values are positioned in relation to the modern state and its security policy within this progress. In particular, as the two latter concepts are in
motion towards some new essence. This article claims that the ongoing shaping of the new European security discourse, and values it is argued to contain, appears to citizens to be incoherence, and it seems to contain objectionable ends larger than the one of the
original ideas of EU-integration, that is labelled as security through integration,* which expression contains terms like stabilisation, co-operation and interdependency. Secondly, the trend concerning national security policy within the integration process seems to lead
to architecture where policy-making is motivated by the purpose and political benefits of the state rather than the benefits of the citizens.
Keywords
security policy; national security policy; national security policy of Finland; European security discourse; NATO
Hrčak ID:
35424
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2009.
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