De/Securitising the 2007 Schengen Enlargement: Austria and “the East”

Drawing on the concepts of securitisation and desecuritisation, the article argues that the construction of security threats does not necessarily have to relate to their threat potential, but can be instrumentalised and utilised by competing actors for specific aims. Using the example of the Austria...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexandra Schwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UACES 2009-08-01
Series:Journal of Contemporary European Research
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Online Access:https://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/178