Eduardo Gill-Pedro
Biträdande universitetslektor
Immunity or Community? : Security in the European Union
Författare
Redaktör
- Xavier Groussot
- Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt
Summary, in English
This chapter sets out the argument that the securitization of the EU, in particular through the development of the area of freedom, security and justice, has transformed the EU project, and moved it away from a logic of community to a logical of immunity. These concepts of ‘community’ (communitas) and ‘immunity’ (immunitas) are derived from the writing of the Italian philosopher, Roberto Esposito. The point of the chapter is not give a detailed exposition of Esposito’s philosophy, but merely to appropriate the concepts advanced by him and apply them as heuristic devices in order to think critically about the securitization of the EU’s area of freedom, security and justice. I argue that, as a immunitarian project, the EU has left its ‘special path’, and can no longer be justified to the member states or to the citizens under a logic of community. I conclude by observing that there is an inherent contradiction in a project which seeks to further European integration by adopting a logic of immunity.
Avdelning/ar
- Juridiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2019-08
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Swedish Studies in European Law
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Hart Publishing Ltd
Ämne
- Law
Nyckelord
- EU law
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- Securitization
- Roberto Esposito
- Community
- Immunity
- EU-rätt
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9781509923311