WP 2 : Securatization beyond borders: Exceptionalism inside the EU and impact on policing beyond borders

This section's articles

• THE EU’S MATURE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY – A CRITICAL HISTORICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  This paper takes stock of the EU’s response to international terrorism since 9/11. The first part provides a summary historical overview, which highlights the event-driven and contingent development of the EU’s counterterrorism policy. The second part presents a critical assessment of policy outcomes according to the objectives set out in the EU’s Counterterrorism Strategy. Measures ‘to pursue’, and ‘to protect’ against, terrorists seem to have grown substantially. In practice, however, they are undercut by a lack of focus and use at the operational level.

• The politics of subterfuge and EU JHA governance capacity

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  This paper starts out from a puzzle: Why is EU JHA characterized by frustrations and blockades, while it is at the same time one of the most dynamic policy-areas? Posed in such general terms, this question is almost impossible to answer: Not only is EU JHA policy a highly diverse, but has also seen phases of ambitious agenda-setting contrasted by periods of stagnation. Therefore, a convincing answer to the above puzzle would require an extensive historical exposition of this policy area, which is beyond the scope of this paper.

• The European Security Vanguard? Prüm, Heiligendamm and Flexible Integration Theory

  8 July 2008, by Bossong Raphael
  The main purpose of this paper is to better understand the political importance of the so-called G6 group that unites the Interior ministers of the six biggest EU member states. Furthermore, some of the implications of the Prüm Convention will be discussed, as the group of Prüm signatories has been compared elsewhere to the G6. However, this paper also hopes to contribute to the wider discussion of the phenomenon of ‘flexible integration’ in area of Justice and Home Affairs. Thus, after a brief historical overview of this issue, a relatively unknown theory of flexible integration will be presented, and briefly applied to the case of the Prüm Convention.

• Development v. Terrorism — migrant remittances or terrorist financing?

  8 July 2008, by Vlcek William
  This paper discusses recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these with the flow of migrant remittances from the Members States of the European Union to Third Countries. New regimes of control within the European Union (EU) towards migration affect more than just those seeking entry to Europe. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings once they secure employment at their final destination.

• Under Construction: ESDP and the ‘Fight Against Organised Crime’

  8 July 2008, by Berenskoetter Felix
  This paper discusses the phenomenon of ‘organised crime’ as a matter for EU foreign and security policy. Primarily aimed at searching for conceptual guidance, the first part draws on literature on criminology and policing, presenting two different theoretical perspectives for analyzing the phenomenon of ‘organized-crime fighting’, a utilitarian and a social constructivist one. Against this backdrop, the second part discusses how ESDP has developed and engaged the issue of organized crime.

• Mapping of the European Security Agencies

  4 février 2008, par Challenge French Team
  Mapping of the European Security Agencies

• Report : The Justice and Home Affairs External Dimension

  29 October 2007, by Mounier Gregory, Wichmann Nicole, Wolff Sarah
  Although the Justice and Home Affairs External Dimension (JHAE) has given rise to a growing number of policy documents in recent years, in academia the topic remains largely understudied. This lack of attention stems from the fact that it sits uneasily between two distinct research communities, on the one hand Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) and the other hand, European Foreign Policy (EFP). A further reason is the prevailing view that JHA is first and foremost an internal EU policy, which pursues internal policy objectives.

• Report of the Seminar on « Mapping the actors of European judicial cooperation »

  27 February 2007, by Challenge French Team, Mégie Antoine
  The aim of this seminar was to describe the European judicial cooperation through the mapping of the relational structures that constitute this space into the field of security.

• Mapping the European Union field of the professionals of security: A methodological note on the problematique

  15 May 2006, by Challenge French Team
  The first eighteen month have been dedicated to empirical research concerning antiterrorist activities done by police organisations, intelligence services, military personnel in France, Spain and UK at the national level and at the level of the EU institutions (Bigo, Bonelli, Guittet). We have also investigated the relationships and the porous boundaries between the professionals of security, the professionals of politics and the professionals of the media, as well as the relations between the public bureaucracies and the private security industry working on exchange of information through data bases and developing biometrics identifiers (Tsoukala, Olsson, Hanon). Complementary research done in Sciences-Po has also investigated the role of magistrates in the EU (Megie) and research has been carried on at the geographic level exploring the transatlantic relations (Bonditti), and the neighbouring relations (Jeandeboz).

• Balancing between inclusion and exclusion: The EU’s fight against irregular migration and human trafficking from Ukraine, Moldova and Russia

  31 January 2006, by Sinikukka Saari
  The EU has fought against human trafficking diligently since the adaptation of the first anti-trafficking strategy a decade ago. Nevertheless, the European anti-trafficking activity is in danger of turning into inefficient pottering due to two major shortcomings. Its efficiency suffers from tight migration policies and from weak protection of trafficking victims. These fundamental deficiencies also demonstrate that in practice traditional, sovereignty-based security thinking is still prioritised over more ethical considerations.

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