Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy

Kaunert, Christian; L�onard, Sarah

Abstract

One of the founding fathers of the European Union (EU) was very
correct in suggesting that people would only recognize the
necessity of change once a crisis was upon them, as the “war on
terror” would show. The EU, as this special issue shows, joined in
this “war on terror”, whereby it collectively securitized the threat
to become a European, rather than a national security threat – a
European “war on terror”. 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. It
posits that EU counterterrorism needs to be analysed as a process
driven by collective securitization as part of an ongoing process
of crisification that leads to increased supranational governance.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 24, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Nov 24, 2021
• Publication Date: Nov 24, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 18, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 19, 2022
• Journal: Global Affairs
• Print ISSN: 2334-0460
• Electronic ISSN: 2334-0479
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 687-693
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23340460.2021.2002098
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8581467
• Additional Information: Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rgaf20; Published: 2021-11-24