Publication

Suffice it to say that lively academic debate persists over democracy’s security enhancing worth. In each area of security concern – interstate relations, soft security, counter-terrorism, conflict resolution – democracy’s value is asserted robustly by many, but also increasingly questioned by other analysts. This working paper provides a broad-brush overview of how we might classify the EU’s approach towards the security-democracy link, and reflects on how this impacts on the broad panoply of traditional security initiatives.