Security | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Europa Institute Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/files/2015/03/European-Futures-Icon.png Security | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk 32 32 Opportunity Cost: Why Brexit is not quite the security and defence moment Brussels has been banking on https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/opportunity-cost-why-brexit-is-not-quite-the-security-and-defence-moment-brussels-has-been-banking-on/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:37:26 +0000 https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=7636 Benjamin Martill   Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent claim that NATO was ‘brain-dead’ and that Europe needed to focus on building up its own security and defence capabilities was the latest in a long line of public pronouncements on the future of European defence in recent years. …

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]]> NATO’s Role in the Refugee Crisis: Building Bridges with the EU https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/natos-role-in-the-refugee-crisis-building-bridges-with-the-eu/ Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:00:52 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=3187 Nina Græger The activities that NATO has undertaken to address the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean focus on intelligence and surveillance, and are designed to complement the efforts of the EU and Turkey, writes Nina Græger. She argues that the operation builds on years of informal cooperation between the EU and NATO, and that the …

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]]> How Long Can France’s State of Emergency Last? https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/how-long-can-frances-state-of-emergency-last/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=2726 Emile Chabal France’s state of emergency in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks has been predominately intended as a measure of public reassurance, writes Emile Chabal. He suggests that current efforts to enshrine the state of emergency provisions into the French constitution ignore its ineffectiveness and its problematic colonial origins. Triomphe of the Police, …

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