Paper Titles & Abstracts

EU enlargements have been probably the Union`s most effective foreign and security policy tool. Hence, the EU consolidates a regional power and order based on a set of values and principles developed by its Member States and supranational institutions of its socio-economic and political community. Both the deepening and widening integration processes have also advanced on security concerns in Europe, (re-)defining of national identities as well as consolidation of what is called a Security Community (Waever, 1998). Both the EU and Russia - as strategic partners - are looking at each other`s potential. According to Makarychev (2009), contemporary Russia is more a norm-exploiter than a norm-producer staying far-removed from multiple norm-producing initiatives on a transnational scale, and if it remains aloof in such debates, communicative problems with its major Western partners are inevitable. The paper analyses dilemmas of values and identity of post-Deutschian normative discourse in EU security relations with Russia. It is argued that policy learning between epistemic communities is crucial to develop security community, even if the public attitudes do not fit well. It is also argued that security integration is value-based at first hand, and thereof the epistemic communities play a more powerful role in the decision making. Their strength is reflected mainly by following key variables: selection and training/common learning, transnational expertize delivery, meeting frequency and quality, shared professional norms and common culture, institutional relations. Formation of EU as Security Community is result of series of cross-sectorial security spill-overs and Russia could be part of the European security community if certain (value-) conditions would be fulfilled. The process is more appropriately observable via the area of internal security cooperation and other areas of non-military (civil) security cooperation.