Untangling the Separate Concepts of Security and Defence in the Context of Brexit

Brexit process is so dynamic, that until the very last moment nobody can be sure on what terms - and if at all – shall this EU-UK divorce be concluded. Hence, at this stage all the analysis on the subject, what form shall or should take after Brexit the currently functioning concepts of security and defence, should rather be treated as an intellectual exercise. The issue of untangling these separate concepts is equation with plethora unknowns and variables. Different perspective on security and defence comes largely out of different view on the scale of threats and potential benefits specific only for a given country. Each EU member state has its own interests and those interests will be the iceberg over which will the attempts to consolidate the concepts would crash. The result of the ongoing negotiation process, and in consequence synchronization and later merging the separate concepts of security and defence, will be an outcome of careful and multidimensional analysis and a compilation of time, arduous talks and butterfly effect and will not show itself in its full scale even after 29th March 2019. It refers even to such matters as new lingua franca within the possible new community in which English would be no longer the mother tongue of any of its member state’s nation. And that can change much more than we can imagine.