EU-US Cooperation on Internal Security

EU-US Cooperation on Internal Security
Author: Dimitrios Anagnostakis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 131552015X

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This book analyses the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on internal security and counter-terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In particular, four areas of cooperation are examined: customs and supply chain security; judicial cooperation (the mutual legal assistance and extradition agreements); law enforcement cooperation (the Europol-US agreements); and the EU-US agreements for the sharing of air passengers’ data (PNR agreements). These cases are analysed through a conceptual framework based on the theories of international regimes, with the data being drawn from an extensive documentary analysis of media sources collected through the 'Nexis' database, official documents, and from 13 semi-structured elite interviews with US and EU officials. The book argues that the EU and the US have established a transatlantic internal security regime based on shared principles, norms, rules, and interests. While at the beginning of this process the EU had a more reactive and passive stance at the later stages both the EU and the US were active in shaping the transatlantic political agenda and negotiations. The book demonstrates how the EU has had a much more proactive role in its relations with the US than has often been assumed in the current literature. This book will be of much interest to students of EU policy, foreign policy, international security and IR in general.

EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security

EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security
Author: Raphael Bossong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319175602

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This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents an in-depth reflection on European border practices and their political, social and economic consequences. Approaching borders as concepts in flux, the authors identify three main trends: the rise of security technologies such as the EUROSUR system, the continued externalization of EU security governance such as border mission training in third states, and the unfolding dynamics of accountability. The contributions show that internal security cooperation in Europe is far from consolidated, since both political oversight mechanisms and the definition of borders remain in flux. This edited volume makes a timely and interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing academic and political debate on the future of open borders and legitimate security governance in Europe. It offers a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of international security and migration studies, as well as for practitioners dealing with border management mechanisms.

Theorizing Internal Security Cooperation in the European Union

Theorizing Internal Security Cooperation in the European Union
Author: Raphael Bossong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198739486

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The book provides an essential primer and reference book which examines the different theories deployed to understand and explain European Union cooperation on internal security matters.

Theorizing Internal Security in the European Union

Theorizing Internal Security in the European Union
Author: Raphael Bossong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192509683

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This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on internal security matters. Cooperation on such matters has not only flourished over the past two decades, but - more recently - has also become one of the most politicised or contested areas of European integration. Yet academic studies in the field remain predominantly empirical or not readily accessible to new scholars. The book addresses this major gap by providing a theoretical primer with a palette of options for explaining a complicated issue area, reaching across the divide of critical and more mainstream scholars that typically fragments discussion and debate. Theorizing Internal Security Cooperation in the European Union offers accessible and authoritative contributions by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. Each chapter reviews the emergence of a major theoretical approach, the current state-of-the art for that approach, and the accompanying methodological considerations before providing an empirical illustration and an outlook on further research and dialogue with other perspectives. This book will serve as a central reference for developing our understanding of EU internal security cooperation, for exploring the ongoing transformation of statehood, and for illuminating the contemporary evolution of the European Union.

New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy

New Challenges for the EU Internal Security Strategy
Author: Maria O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443850152

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In recent years, the EU and its member states have experienced a number of changes, as well as challenges, in the areas of politics, economics, security and law. As these areas are interconnected, changes and challenges to any of them have implications for the others, as well as implications for the populations and institutions of the EU or those coming into contact with its international power and influence. This edited collection focuses primarily on security and law, particularly the EU’s internal security strategy. The EU’s Internal Security Strategy, adopted by the Spanish presidency early in 2010, followed the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, building on previous developments within the EU in the Area of Freedom Security and Justice (AFSJ) policy. The focus of the EU Internal Security Strategy is to prevent and combat “serious and organised crime, terrorism and cybercrime, in strengthening the management of our external borders and in building resilience to natural and man-made disasters”. The Internal Security strategy intersects and overlaps with the European Union’s Counter-terrorism strategy, the Strategy for the External Dimension of JHA, and the EU’s Security Strategy. The role of and interaction between these strategies, their supplementing documents, and their implications for crime, victims, the law, political relations, democracy and human rights, form the backdrop against which the chapters in this collection are written. Building on original research by its contributors, this collection comprises work by authors from a wide variety of academic and professional areas and perspectives, as well as different countries, on a variety of areas and issues related to or raised by the EU’s Internal Security Strategy, from intelligence-led policing to human trafficking and port security. This book examines, from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives including law, geography, politics and practice, both this further refinement of existing internal provisions on cross-border crime, and the increasing external relations of the EU in the AFSJ.

Challenges and Critiques of the EU Internal Security Strategy

Challenges and Critiques of the EU Internal Security Strategy
Author: Maria O'Neill
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527504328

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This collection of papers examines a variety of areas and issues related to, or raised by, the EU Internal Security Strategy. It covers such matters as critical infrastructure protection and environmental crime, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including law, geography and politics. The EU Internal Security Strategy is becoming increasingly complex as it develops over time, as it has to operate against the background of growing diversity in law enforcement systems across EU member states. It is clear that the EU Internal Security Strategy is, and will continue to be for a long time, a work in progress, not only in its aim to address traditional transnational security threats, but also in reacting to emerging concerns, either in new crime areas or issues arising from the implementation of earlier phases of the strategy. This will be a subject matter for many academic discipline areas for some time to come.

Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation

Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation
Author: Raphael Bossong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-07-23
Genre: European Union countries
ISBN: 9781138793255

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This book reveals the fundamental dynamics of - and problems confronting -- internal security cooperation in the EU by using the lens of collective action theory. It shows that the various goals of EU cooperation in this field resemble different forms of public goods - and thus present inherent obstacles to effective cooperation. This book was published as a special issue of European Security.

The Field of the EU Internal Security Agencies

The Field of the EU Internal Security Agencies
Author: Didier Bigo
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2007
Genre: Internal security
ISBN: 2296039103

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This volume exemplifies the general theory of a field of professionals of security (in the line of our first book Illiberal Practices of Liberal Regimes) and proposes a map of die European internal security agencies (Europol, Eurojust, Frontex, OLAF). It insists on the relations between the agencies in order to give a better idea of the flow of communication and strategic or operational decisions produced at the EU level as too often die audience has only monographers about these agencies. Any researcher, student, NGO or policy maker interested in security in the EU will thus have a better idea of the relations between die agencies and a greater understanding of what is at stake with liberty, security and justice in Europe.

The European Union’s Fight Against Terrorism

The European Union’s Fight Against Terrorism
Author: Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134929900

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This book contributes to the understanding of the counter-terrorism (CT) policy of the European Union (EU) by offering a set of analyses focusing on its external dimension. Whilst calling for the combination of internal and external policies as well as cooperation with third countries and international institutions, the external dimension of EUCT challenges previous assumptions on the functioning of the EU and offers new testing ground for the latest theoretical and methodological approaches. This volume provides the first systematic assessment of the external dimension of EUCT. It covers transatlantic counter-terrorism cooperation, the interaction between EU institutions and policies, theoretical debates on EU actorness in counter-terrorism and the role of judicial institutions in international counter-terrorism. Furthermore, it draws attention to the need for engaging in new discussions over the post-Lisbon Treaty Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the international fight against terrorism, and the way international actors cooperate and compete on the security arena. It will be of interest for both academics and practitioners working on EU foreign policy, transatlantic relations and international counter-terrorism. It will also be of interest for students and journalists specialized on European and international affairs. This book was published as a special issue of European Security.

The European Union and Internal Security

The European Union and Internal Security
Author: V. Mitsilegas
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2003-03-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230504388

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In the post-Cold war period new security threats have arisen in Western Europe. Amongst these, organized crime and illegal immigration are acknowledged to represent significant security challenges. The European Union and Internal Security analyses the nature of these challenges and investigates how the EU has been evolving to counter them. Written by experts in the fields of political science and law, this book addresses a hitherto neglected area of study.