Introduction

Security Governance is a term that has slowly developed as an organizing concept over, perhaps, the last ten years. It seeks to capture something that is obvious to both analysts and policy-makers, yet also rather amorphous: a multiplicity of actors in the security field, a broadening of the activities that might be deemed to lie in the in field of security, and also the way in which security issues and discourses have been the subject to a variety of forms of institutionalization. And ‘governance’ seems a reasonable frame with which to try to develop a holistic focus on those three interrelated dimensions: governance, after all, is a well-developed concept that allows analysts to examine regulation and management in a number of issue areas, not least those within the European Union.