European institutions are either loathed or underestimated. This book analyses the role of EU institutions in the area of European internal security. From Justice and Home Affairs, this area has become more like a European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. In this process, the European Commission has demonstrably played the role of an engine of integration' in areas such a counter-terrorism, policing, asylum, migration and border management. This book uses the framework of supranational policy entrepeuners (SPE), those who stand at the policy window in order to propose, lobby for and...
European institutions are either loathed or underestimated. This book analyses the role of EU institutions in the area of European internal security. ...
This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration. The EU functions in a complex security environment, with perceived security threats from Islamist terrorists, migration and border security issues, and environmental problems. In order to deal with these, the EU has undertaken a number of actions, including the adoption of the European Security Strategy in 2003, the Information Management Strategy of 2009, and the Internal Security Strategy of 2010. However, despite...
This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider contex...
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states, especially into internal security, or Justice and Home Affairs. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), as it has been renamed in the Amsterdam Treaty, has seen significant policy developments since the late 1990s. In fact, there has been no other example of a policy-making area making its way so quickly and comprehensively to the centre of the treaties and to the top of the EU's policy-making agenda. After major treaty revisions in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, and, finally the...
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states, especially into internal security, or Justic...
Asylum and migration are amongst the most contentious political issues in Europe and it has been argued that migrants and asylum-seekers have been securitized in the EU and socially constructed as security threats.
This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the European Union (EU). It seeks to analytically distinguish the asylum policy of the EU from its policies on migrants and border controls on the basis of the literature on 'venue-shopping' and policy venues. The authors argue that the development of the EU...
Asylum and migration are amongst the most contentious political issues in Europe and it has been argued that migrants and asylum-seekers have been ...
This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration.
This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider contex...
This title offers a broad understanding of security in a European context. It argues that security concerns are increasingly triggered by challenges such as terrorism, climate change, mass migration flows, and many other 'non-traditional' security issues.
This title offers a broad understanding of security in a European context. It argues that security concerns are increasingly triggered by challenges s...
The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of experts discuss how the EU has shed its reputation as a weak international actor in light of its policies on police cooperation and intelligence-sharing as part of the global effort to combat terrorism
The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage. In this collection, a series of ex...
This text examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). When the Maastricht Treaty entered into force on 1 November 1993, the institutional landscape of the so-called 'Third Pillar' looked significantly different than it does now. Aside from Europol, which existed only on paper at that time, the European agencies examined in this book were mere ideas in the heads of federalist dreamers or were not even contemplated.
This text examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). When the Maastricht Treaty en...
This book examines the evolution towards increased supranational governance in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). At the end of 2009, a successor programme to the Tampere and Hague Programmes was developed under the Swedish Presidency. Called the 'Stockholm Programme', it was adopted at a special EU Council Summit on 10-11 December 2009. The new agenda covers the period 2010-2014 and emphasises six areas of priority. In the context of these priorities, as well as the innovations introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, this edited book analyses policy change in the AFSJ,...
This book examines the evolution towards increased supranational governance in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ). At the end of 20...
This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or supported by, other goals (geo-strategic, economic, and cultural) in the policies of the major actors towards the Middle East. Does the Arab Spring provide a new opening for cooperation with the region? Contributions are offered by scholars with research interests in Middle Eastern politics, and by those analysing the policies and interests of external actors.
Against the backdrop of the recent War on Terror, the comparative and...
This book examines Western foreign policy towards the Middle East, and the extent to which the promotion of democracy has been in conflict with, or...
