The impact of 9/11 on European Foreign and Security Policy

The contributors to this book argue that the events of 9/11 and the?war on terror? are having a significant transformative impact onEuropean Foreign and Security Policy. This is demonstrated through an analysis of changes in the attitudes ofEU officials and politicians towards the laws and norms governing theuse of force and through an analysis of changes in strategies towardsthe Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the UnitedStates. The impact of the ?war on terror? on EU military affairs ishighlighted. It is argued that since 9/11 there has been a widening, deepening,and ?securitisation? of European Foreign and Security Policy.The widening is reflected in a broader EU commitment to crisismanagement and postwar reconstruction at the global level, which attimes takes the form of ?state building?. The deepening is representedby the emergence of groups of EU countries, so called ?vanguards?,leading in foreign and security policy issues and in EU military affairs.For the first time in its history, the EU Council has also endorsed anotion of threats that is contributing to a process of ?securitisation? ofaspects of EU internal and external policies.