Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Introduction : security as ethos and episteme -- Nietzsche, or value and the subject of security -- Foucault, or genealogy of the ethical subject -- Lacan, or the ethical subject of the real -- Butler, or the precarious subject -- Identity, community and security -- Intolerable insecurity -- Justice in political, legal and moral community -- Psychoanalysis of the national thing -- Security culture and the new ethos of risk -- Insecurity of the European community of values -- The modernity of a cosmopolitan Europe -- The new nomos of Europe -- A federalist Europe between economic and cultural value -- War in the name of Europe and the legitimacy of collective violence -- Conclusion : the many faces of European security.