Complexe de sécurité ouest-méditerranéen : externalisation et sécurisation de la migration
This article analyzes the western Mediterranean as a Euro-Maghreb Regional Security Complex, examining the manner in which West-Mediterranean security is conceived. Using an analytical framework drawing on the various theoretical approaches to international relations (realist, liberal, constructivis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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CNRS Éditions
2013-10-01
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| Series: | L’Année du Maghreb |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/1843 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the western Mediterranean as a Euro-Maghreb Regional Security Complex, examining the manner in which West-Mediterranean security is conceived. Using an analytical framework drawing on the various theoretical approaches to international relations (realist, liberal, constructivist and security studies… including the contribution of the Copenhagen school), this paper examines three major elements. First, it analyzes the construction of the West Mediterranean region focusing on defense issues confronting the group of 5+5 and on the persistence of the Maghreb, despite dilution of regional specificities in the Euro-Maghrebin relationship. The article then applies the Regional Security Complex approach developed by Buzan and Waever to analyze the west Mediterranean context, developing a reflection on interference versus safe interpenetration between the three contiguous regions – Southern Europe, the Maghreb and the Sahel – a region in which the Maghreb is central. The analysis reveals that the western Mediterranean is a complex and heterogeneous security zone of a new kind; an area in which social security takes precedence over other dimensions of security. Finally, the analysis reveals that a dual process is operant in the western Mediterranean, with consequences both for the criminalization of migration and for the internalization of enforcement powers delegated from the European Union; European policies are thus internalized along with European discursive practices. The article concludes that the delegation process is limited to security issues and without effect in the ethical sphere, despite the context of the democratic Arab uprisings. |
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| ISSN: | 1952-8108 2109-9405 |