Europe under threat: The new culture of insecurity

The Strategic Institute Programme will update available knowledge on actual sources of insecurity to Europeans and evaluate the relevance and effectiveness of conventional European institutional arrangements designed to safeguard against them. The progra mme will coordinate the study of six empirical cases of non-conventional insecurity in Europe: the threat of terrorist attack, social insecurity, the threat of pandemic, insecurity related to migration, gender-related insecurity, and insecurity caused by religious conflict. By reconsidering the nature of threats to Europe in the post-9/11 era, the project will contribute to developing scholarly concepts and methods better equipped to grasp the new security challenges facing Europe.