Security Concerns and Foreign Policy

Abstract

As previous crises such as Libya and Iraq have revealed, the West is suffering from a deficient common security identity which is held to be a necessary pre-requisite of a functioning security community. A comparative approach to the U.S., French, German, and British reactions to the Russian annexation of the Crimea could help to disclose whether and to what extent the value-based foundations of the transatlantic security community are eroding. It will be examined when and how the U.S., the European Union and its three member states securitized ‘Crimea’ in early 2014. The securitization model – as proposed by Buzan, Wæver and de Wilde – seems well suited to complement the theory of security communities by offering analytical criteria for the comparison. The research question therefore reads: Who securitized what, when, and how in the Crimea annexation case? The analysis will reveal to what extent the security community of "the West" still exists and enables a common foreign policy in the future.

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