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

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.

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

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: 220
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191059889

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.

International Relations Theory and European Security

International Relations Theory and European Security
Author: Lorenzo Cladi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317534883

This book engages with key contemporary European security issues from a variety of different theoretical standpoints, in an attempt to uncover the drivers of foreign policy and defence integration in the EU. Although European foreign policy has been attracting an ever-increasing number of International Relations (IR) scholars since the end of the Cold War, consensus on what drives European foreign policy integration has not yet emerged. This book seeks to encourage debate on this issue by examining a wide range of high-profile security issues which have roused significant interest from policy makers, academics and the public in recent years. The volume discusses, amongst other issues, the strategic posture of the European Union as a security actor, the troubled relationship with Russia, the debate regarding France’s relations with the US following France’s rapprochement with NATO and the EU’s influence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The collective intent of the contributors to highlight the drivers of EU foreign policy and defence integration ties together the wide variety of topics covered in this volume, forming it into a comprehensive overview of this issue. By paying considerable attention not just to the internal drivers of EU cooperation, but also to the critical role played by the US as an incentive or obstacle to European security, this book presents a unique contribution to this field of debate. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, IR theory, Transatlantic Relations, European politics and EU foreign policy.

Explaining the European Union's Foreign Policy

Explaining the European Union's Foreign Policy
Author: Magnus Ekengren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108422306

Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

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

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.

The Evolution of Information-sharing in EU Counter-terrorism

The Evolution of Information-sharing in EU Counter-terrorism
Author: Christine Andreeva
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2023-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1803928301

Through a pioneering analysis of two critical junctures in EU counter-terrorism brought about by significant terrorist attacks, this topical book examines the drivers, conditions and impediments for policy integration and information-exchange institutionalisation in EU counter-terrorism.

Security Meets Gender Equality in the EU

Security Meets Gender Equality in the EU
Author: Lucrecia Rubio Grundell
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2022-12-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031122097

This book explores the triangular dynamics of securitisation and desecuritisation that underpin the EU’s approach to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation. That is, the progressive securitisation of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies and the existence of two distinct and competing approaches that coexist among feminist struggles against such trend and that largely follow the two opposing views that structure feminist debates on prostitution: a neo-abolitionist approach, on the one hand, that is increasingly defended from within EU institutions, and has therefore become increasingly entangled with the securitisation of trafficking in women; and a sex work approach, on the other hand, that has been largely relegated to the domains of academia and civil society. As such, this book addresses the intersection of security and feminist neo-abolitionism within the EU’s anti-trafficking policies, as well as the de-securitising potential of the anti-trafficking advocacy of both neo-abolitionist and sex worker organisations operating at EU level. This book is unique in that it unprecedentedly brings together three bodies of literature that rarely interact: Critical Security Studies, EU Gender Studies and the feminist literature on prostitution and trafficking in women and demonstrates their fruitful interaction in an extensive empirical analysis of the EU’s internal security, violence against women and anti-trafficking policies.

The Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research

The Routledge Handbook of Justice and Home Affairs Research
Author: Ariadna Ripoll Servent
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 921
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317292561

Justice and Home Affairs is one of the fastest expanding areas of research in European Studies. The European response to security concerns such as terrorism, organised crime networks, and drug trafficking as well as to the challenge of managing migration flows are salient topics of interest to an increasing number of scholars of all disciplines, the media and general public. This handbook takes stock of policy development and academic research in relation to justice and home affairs and analyses the field in an unprecedented thematic depth. The book comprehensively investigates the field from the perspective of the three dimensions central to European integration: the sectoral (policies), the horizontal (states, regions) and the vertical (institutions, decision-making) dimensions. It also discusses the most important theoretical approaches used in this research area and provides the reader with a state of the art picture of the field. By adopting such a comprehensive and broad-based approach, the handbook is uniquely positioned to be an important referent for scholars, practitioners and students interested in the area of justice, home affairs and European politics.

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration
Author: Morten Kelstrup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006-12-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134611919

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration focuses on the roles of community, power and security, within the European Union. It features contributions from highly respected international scholars, and covers subjects such as: · sovereignty and European integration · the EU and the politics of migration · the internationalisation of military security · the EU as a security actor · money, finance and power · the quest for legitimacy with regards to EU enlargement.