A threat against europe security migration and integration peter burgess serge gutwirth ies book series nr 20 the concept of security has traditionally referred to the status of sovereign states in a closed international system prio where he leads the security programme and edits the journal security dialogue and senior . Comprehending as well as pact even more than other will have the funds for each success bordering to the pronouncement as without difficulty as insight of this a threat against europe security migration and integration institute for european studies series can be taken as with ease as picked to act. J peter burgess is a research professor at the peace research institute in oslo where he leads the security program and edits the security dialogue journal and a senior research fellow at the institute for european studies at the vrije universiteit in brussels he is the author of the ethical subject of security geopolitical rationality and the threat against europe. Security migration and integration abstract he concept of security has traditionally referred to the status of sovereign states in a closed international system in this system the state is assumed to be both the object of security and the primary provider of security. When the founders of the united nations spoke of collective security they were referring primarily to state security and to the coordinated system that would be necessary in order to avoid the scourge of war but today a wide range of security threats both new and traditional confront europe or at least as some would say