1st Edition

Collective Securitization and Crisification of EU Policy Change Two Decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy

Edited By Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard Copyright 2023
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book represents the first attempt to evaluate the first two decades of the EU counterterrorism policy. It aims to assess the collective securitization process in EU counterterrorism, evaluating this as a process between a construction of security threats and the development of supranational governance through crisification. Compared to the lack of shared perception of the terrorist threat... Read more

Introduction - two decades of EU counterterrorism: between collective securitization and crisification 

Christian Kaunert and Sarah Léonard 

1. EU counter-terrorism 20 years after 9/11: "common threat" and "common response"? 

Jörg Monar 

2. EU measures to combat terrorist financing since 9/11: efficient, but not very effective 

Oldrich Bures 

3. Still the absent friend? The European Union’s global counter-terrorism role after twenty years 

Alex MacKenzie and Christian Kaunert 

4. The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism 

Christian Kaunert, Briony Callander and Sarah Léonard 

5. Electoral cost of the European Union promoted norms: Erdogan’s counter-terrorism impasse 

Ethem Ilbiz 

6. The new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda: preemptive security through the anticipation of terrorist events 

Christopher Baker-Beall and Gareth Mott 

7. EU counterterrorism, collective securitization, and the internal-external security nexus 

Alistair J.K. Shepherd 

8. The evolution of information-sharing in EU counter-terrorism post-2015: a paradigm shift? 

Christine Andreeva 

9. The key elements of the LIBE Committee’s compromise proposal on e-evidence: a critical overview through a fundamental rights lens 

Athina Sachoulidou 

10. Emerging challenges for combating the financing of terrorism in the European Union: financing of violent right-wing extremism and misuse of new technologies 

Hans-Jakob Schindler 

11. Securitization across borders – commonalities and contradictions in European and Arab counterterrorism discourses 

Lars Berger 

12. Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds 

Greg Simons 

13. Legitimacy and EU security and defence policy: the chimera of a simulacrum 

Ben Tonra 

14. European security and defence in the shadow of Brexit 

Benjamin Kienzle and Ellen Hallams 

15. Diversified in unity: the agenda for the geopolitical European Commission 

Kamil Zwolski 

16. A dangerous middle-ground: terrorists, counter-terrorists, and gray-zone conflict 

Scott H. Englund 

Biography

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also Professor of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net).

Sarah Léonard is Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Prior to taking up her post at UWE Bristol, Sarah was Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and Associate Professor in International Affairs at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).​