Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 12/5/2007
Fusing Security and Development: Just another Euro-platitude?
October 2007
Centre for European Policy Studies
Abstract
The EU has increasingly committed itself to fusing security and development. Developmental approaches to security are routinely seen as integral to the EU’s distinctive foreign policy identity. This paper finds, however, that much work remains to be done to implement this commitment. Few in the EU would doubt that development and security go hand in hand, but differences abound over what this implies for the allocation of finite resources and the nature of diplomatic engagements.
