Together We Fight? Europe’s Debate over the Legitimacy of Military Interventions

Abstract

This chapter explores the Europeanization of public spheres in a highly contested area of European integration: the use of military force. It probes into the emergence of a common European security discourse as a‘hard case’ of Europeanization and analyses the ways in which speakers in the media have legitimized the use of force, changed domestic norms regarding the deployment of troops, and shifted national security identities in the wake of a new international‘humanitarianism’ and interventionism.