ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Europe after the Lisbon Treaty (LT) and it focuses on the prospect of European security. Understanding of European security runs up against several difficulties, which at least need to be pointed out and recognized. Almost half of the amendments made to Treaty of the European Union (TEU) concern the field of security, defence and foreign policy. The LT was intended to provide a more coherent European Union. Europe cannot be understood, or accepted, as a political community without the appropriate symbolic underpinnings. The ways in which a polity deals with issues of foreign and security relations may be revealing as to its sense of identity and community. However, one possible conclusion is that nothing much has changed in terms of European security. Europe continues to develop as a postmodern system.
