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

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 2...

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Main Author: Flynn Brendan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-08-01
Series:Croatian International Relations Review
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cirr.2016.22.issue-75/cirr-2016-0001/cirr-2016-0001.xml?format=INT