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  The Rationalities of European Border Security
 
 
Title: The Rationalities of European Border Security
Author: Hills, Alice
Appeared in: European security
Paging: Volume 15 (2006) nr. 1 pages 67-88
Year: 2006-03-01
Contents: Any account of European security that ignores border security is incomplete, and any account of border security that disregards functional issues is unfinished. Border security is an empirical manifestation of a state's adaptation to its political environment, so a comprehensive analysis of European security requires that both the empirical and conceptual parameters of border management should be identified. However, this is problematic. Not only is functional security benignly neglected by the academy, but also border management is based on competing political imperatives, operational necessities, and social realities, rather than a coherent theoretical framework. Although the rationalities of European border security have yet to be systematically analysed, the Schengen accord is unlikely to provide the foundations needed for a comprehensive paradigm of European (border) security. This article focuses on the empirical and practical—rather than theoretical—dimensions of border security in order to rebalance the debate.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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