If security is to remain the key word for international relations, is the “neighbourhood ” idea still meaningful?  Who are neighbours or which criteria determine the concept definition?

 

Proximity appears to be the keystone of the neighbourhood concept, but of what kind: geographical, cultural, political, economic or other? The main problem here is to assess whether it is still appropriate to talk about proximity in a globalized world.

 

Does it have a sense nowadays caring about stability in the neighbourhood when also the furthest events generate recoils inside our borders? Security appears to be the last stronghold of traditional sovereignty to be knocked down by borderless tendencies of globalization.

 

1. Can security be defined as a "common good"?
2. Is it possible to draw a scenario on the potential evolutions of border security?
3. Is globalisation breaking traditional concepts of distance and interdependence?
4. Is nowadays technology enough to deal with border security?
5. What affects the meaning of border security in the short- medium- and long-run?
6. How can border security abstract from the involvement of the actors concerned?