Though the European security is mainly associated to the intergovernmental domain, the European Commission has played a growing role as political entrepreneur in the field, notably with the start of the European Security Research Programme in 2007 and (with the adoption of the Defence Package in 2009) the establishment of the European defence market. Based on the implementation of both initiatives, the paper aims at understanding the community process of security policies and its effects on EU security governance practices. This field is considered as a configuration of relations, power struggles and strategies among several and heterogeneous, public and private actors, having different interests, resources and skills, to influence policy processes and cooperation dynamics. In order to understand how this new system of relations operates, the paper will analyze the power structures and the schemes of perception and action that they produce.
