Abstract
The Western European security community is unique for a number of reasons. It is the only region in the world that can be unproblematically labelled as a security community. That community was selfconsciously constructed over a number of decades. It is bound together by complex webs of institutions and relationships. And, since 1989 at least, its relations with its neighbours have moved from mutual antagonism across an Tron Curtain’ towards integration and enlargement. Following the framework outlined in Chapter 3, this chapter is divided into four parts. The first part investigates the identities, interests and values of the security community by discussing the evolution of the ‘European idea’. Part two compares these identities, interests and values with those of outsiders. The third and fourth parts investigate the material aspects of the community — the third by considering the institutional, epistemic and transversal relations within the community, the fourth by investigating the quality and quantity of these relationships across the security community’s borders.
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Bellamy, A.J. (2004). Security Communities in Transition: The European Experience. In: Security Communities and their Neighbours. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005600_5
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