ABSTRACT
Even a casual observer of EU security cooperation would take note of growing attention to the ‘internal-external security nexus' in recent years. This chapter approaches the question of the internal-external security nexus from a distinct angle. It explores to what extent external security actors in Europe have adopted internal security rationales, logics and goals in their discourses and practices – and to what extent this may influence internal security cooperation per se. The obvious starting point for considering European external security in a traditional sense is the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CSFP). The CSFP serves as the political umbrella for more sector-specific foreign and security policies of the EU. The general trend in EU Security and Defence Policy, under which we subsume three kinds of externally oriented actors – the Common Security and Defence Policy, the European Defence Agency and the new European Defence Fund – is two-fold.
