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The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor (2022)
Book

After the death of Osama Bin Laden and the demise of Al Qaeda, the EU is increasingly threatened by new jihadi terrorist groups such as ISIS, as exemplified by recent terror attacks on Paris, Brussels, Nice, Berlin and Manchester. This book investiga... Read More about The European Union as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor.

The securitization of COVID-19 as a security norm: WHO norm entrepreneurship and norm cascading (2022)
Journal Article

In this article, we analyze the emergence of a global security norm of the COVID-19 epidemic as a threat to international security. This crisis is one of the gravest crises that humanity has experienced since the end of World War II in terms of the n... Read More about The securitization of COVID-19 as a security norm: WHO norm entrepreneurship and norm cascading.

Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy (2021)
Journal Article

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, joi... Read More about Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy.

The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism (2021)
Journal Article

This article analyses the expansion of European Union cooperation on aviation security using the framework of collective securitization. It establishes how 9/11 was a precipitating event that put terrorism and aviation security in the spotlight. 9/11... Read More about The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism.

Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association (2021)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the debates on the securitization of asylum and migration in Europe by focussing on the securitization of asylum-seekers through their association with terrorism during the ‘refugee crisis’, which coincided with a ‘terrori... Read More about Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association.

De-centring the securitization of asylum and migration in the European Union: Securitization, vulnerability and the role of Turkey (2021)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the debates on de-centring the analysis of migration governance in Europe by focusing on the potential role of external actors in the securitisation of asylum and migration in the European Union (EU). Although there has be... Read More about De-centring the securitization of asylum and migration in the European Union: Securitization, vulnerability and the role of Turkey.

The development of Europol's external relations: Towards supranationalism? (2021)
Journal Article

This article examines the extent to which, if any, the development of Europol’s external relations over time has contributed to the integration of EU policing and criminal justice. More precisely, with reference to the academic debates on ‘intergover... Read More about The development of Europol's external relations: Towards supranationalism?.

The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices (2020)
Journal Article

This article investigates the evolving security practices of one of the key actors in the handling of asylum-seekers and migrants at the external borders of the European Union (EU) Member States, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, widely ref... Read More about The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices.

‘They need us more than we need them’: British exceptionalism, Brexit, and justice and home affairs (2020)
Journal Article

This article analyses the EU-UK Future Relationship negotiations on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) through the lenses of ‘exceptionalism’. This concept refers to a given state’s self-understanding as being not only fundamentally different from other... Read More about ‘They need us more than we need them’: British exceptionalism, Brexit, and justice and home affairs.

Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the EU’s efforts to tackle radicalisation. The specific formulation of its title (i.e. ‘preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement’) reflects the EU’s emphasis on preventing radicalisation. Most of the radicalisation-... Read More about Preventing radicalisation and enhancing disengagement in the European Union.

The European Union's response to the CBRN terrorist threat: A multiple streams approach (2019)
Journal Article

This article examines how the European Union (EU) has sought to address the threat of CBRN terrorism using Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework. It demonstrates that the EU has significantly developed its response to the CBRN terrorist threat, but th... Read More about The European Union's response to the CBRN terrorist threat: A multiple streams approach.

Refugees, Security and the European Union (2019)
Book

This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU.

The book argues that the development of the EU asylum policy, far from 'securitizing' asylum-seekers and refugees, has led to the str... Read More about Refugees, Security and the European Union.

The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores the recent and significant growth of European Union cooperation on counter-terrorism by drawing upon the concept of ‘collective securitisation’. It highlights how 9/11 was a precipitating event, one which led some EU leaders to... Read More about The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union.

Counter-terrorism Cooperation (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines how the EU has attempted to develop counter-terrorism cooperation with its Eastern and Southern partners and which results it has achieved in practice. It starts by locating counter-terrorism in the broader context of the EU’s s... Read More about Counter-terrorism Cooperation.

Police and Judicial Cooperation Policy (2017)
Book Chapter

Several major European Union (EU) treaty revisions, as well as the increased political prioritisation of counter-terrorism and combating organised crime in Europe, have led to the development of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) into o... Read More about Police and Judicial Cooperation Policy.

Searching for a Strategy for the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (2016)
Book

This book examines the vision and strategy of the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), which has become one of the key objectives of the European Union (EU). Recent events have also highlighted the saliency of several of the policy issu... Read More about Searching for a Strategy for the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

Beyond Stockholm: In search of a strategy for the European union’s area of freedom, security, and justice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. The development of the European Union’s Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ) has been identified by the Lisbon Treaty (2009) as one of the key objectives of the European Union (EU). Recent events have also highligh... Read More about Beyond Stockholm: In search of a strategy for the European union’s area of freedom, security, and justice.

‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Securitization theory seeks to explain the politics through which (1) the security character of public problems is established, (2) the social commitments resulting from the collective acceptance that a phenomenon is a t... Read More about ‘Securitization’ revisited: theory and cases.

Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East (2015)
Book

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... Read More about Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East.

Justice and Home Affairs Agencies in the European Union (2015)
Book

This book 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’ look... Read More about Justice and Home Affairs Agencies in the European Union.