New Concepts for a New Era of European Security

In this edited volume, we discuss how Europeans can work toward strengthening their own agency in providing European security and ensuring peace and stability on the continent in the changing geopolitical context. The analyses provide the following recommendations. They illustrate that European agency on security cannot rely on military means alone but requires a comprehensive approach that accounts for its societal, economic, and institutional dimensions. The fundamental precondition for European security, however, remains Ukraine’s survival as a sovereign state – for which follows the most important recommendation conditioning all others: enabling Ukraine to defend itself by increasing military support, providing Ukraine with credible security guarantees after the cessation of active hostilities, and integrating Ukraine as a security actor into Europe.