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How to Explain the Transnational Security Governance of the E uropean U nion?
Author(s) -
Zwolski Kamil
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/jcms.12121
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , scholarship , corporate governance , political science , global governance , international relations , international security , public relations , public administration , sociology , law and economics , law , management , economics , politics
This article argues that empirical developments in international security governance offer untapped opportunities for strengthening intellectual links between E uropean U nion ( EU ) studies and international relations. To uncover these links, the article first demonstrates how the EU has started to address various chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear security risks through adopting an approach conceptualized as ‘transnational security governance’. The article subsequently argues that this approach can be convincingly explained by drawing on the insights from the study of the sociology of bureaucracy and bureaucratic behaviour in international relations. In this story, the EU 's approach to international security is an example of normal bureaucratic practice, stemming in particular from the bureaucracy's moral and expert authority. Importantly, the engagement with the broader social science scholarship will benefit EU studies as much as other sub‐disciplines.