INTERVENTION, EXAMPLE AND RESILIENCE: THE SECURITY-DEMOCRACY NEXUS IN THE EU’S STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CSDP

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The security-democracy nexus influenced decision-making of the main democracy promoters in the international system, including the European Union. Using two theories to form the theoretical framework, the Democratic Peace theory, and the Just War theory specifically, through the method of content analysis of the security strategies of the European Union, this paper aims to understand how did the EU approach the security-democracy nexus in their strategic security documents from 2003 to 2016? The main results found on the analysis of the security strategies considering the theories are organized in two ways that the security-democracy nexus was addressed by the actor: the democracy post bellum, and the resilience of democracy.