Abstract

The session focuses on the link between “internal and external aspects of security” declared by the EU in the post-Cold War by proposing to reflect on the rationale and the effects of the European narrative and practices in  reconfiguring the border logic. In short, the narrative of links replaces the realist paradigm’s border of the (paradigmatic, political and organic separation between in/out with reference to the political-geographical boundary), the reconfigured border in terms of stable centre/unsafe periphery (made nearby in the globalized world to “multidimensional”, “dynamic”, “transnational” threats) be it in societal and be it in identity terms.

Biographical note

International Relations professor at the University of Minho, a specialist in security studies (security conceptualization, human security) and European Studies (political system of the EU, European foreign policy and actorness, cooperation in home affairs). She has coordinated several research projects in the area and published several articles and books on these subjects, both nationally and internationally.