EU Grand Strategy vs. NSS approaches: An Analysis on Immigration Policies.

Abstract

My senior study explores the immigration policies of the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) through the analysis of their regional strategies, the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) and the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) documents between 2017 and 2020. This senior study delves into the comparison of the strategies and how the inherent differences as well as the inferred similarities in both areas led to present immigration policies. Moreover, the senior study will address the recently developed migration pact of the EU and its implications on the Union’s member states. In addition, we cannot solely compare the region of the EU to a definite country, which is why it is important to evaluate EU member states. By comparing country-specific policies to the EU’s approach, we will note a myriad of challenges, and it would give us an insight on how particular countries interact with the U.S. and how it tends to conflict with the visions of the Union. The aim of this senior study is twofold. First, it aims to assess how the EU and the U.S. have different and similar approaches in their immigration policies. Second, it focuses on the EUGS and the NSS to highlight how such similarities and differences have initially been established. The primary themes of concentration include societal security and economy, which are specifically extracted from the analysis of the opinions of major powers within the EU (Germany, France, and major political factions) as compared to those of the Trump administration in the U.S.; these premises will be relevant throughout my senior study within the analysis of the immigration security approaches of the U.S. and the EU, and notably in the analytical findings.