Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira - The European Unions Fight Against Terrorism

This book contributes to the understanding of the counter-terrorism (CT) policy of the European Union (EU) by offering a set of analyses focusing on its external dimension. Whilst calling for the combination of internal and external policies as well as cooperation with third countries and international institutions, the external dimension of EUCT challenges previous assumptions on the functioning of the EU and offers new testing ground for innovative theoretical and methodological approaches.

This volume provides the first systematic assessment of the external dimension of EUCT. It covers transatlantic counter-terrorism cooperation, the interaction between EU institutions and policies, theoretical debates on EU actorness in counter-terrorism and the role of judicial institutions in international counter-terrorism. Furthermore, it draws attention to the need for engaging in new discussions over the post-Lisbon Treaty Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the international fight against terrorism, and the way international actors cooperate and compete on the security arena. This book will be of interest for both academics and practitioners working on EU foreign policy, transatlantic relations and international counter-terrorism. It will also be of interest for students and journalists specialised on European and international affairs.

This book was published as a special issue of European Security.

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho, in Portugal; and Senior Researcher at the research centre NICPRI based at the same university.

Bruno Oliveira Martins is a Research Fellow at Aarhus University, in Denmark, and at the research centre NICPRI at the University of Minho, in Portugal.

The European Unions Fight Against Terrorism

The CFSP and Beyond

Edited by
Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira and Bruno Oliveira Martins

First published 2014

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The chapters in this book were originally published in European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira and Bruno Oliveira Martins

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 459473

Christian Kaunert, Sarah Leonard and Alex MacKenzie

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 474496

Andrew L. Porter and Annegret Bendiek

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 497517

Xiana Barros

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 518536

Bruno Oliveira Martins and Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 537556

Erik Brattberg and Mark Rhinard

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 557577

Christian Kaunert

European Security, volume 21, issue 4 (December 2012) pp. 578587

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Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira

Having recently completed its first decade of existence, the EUs counter-terrorism policy has been receiving increasing scholarly attention as reflected in the specialized literature devoted to this emerging policy area. Its external dimension, nevertheless, has not been the subject of thorough and systematic analyses which scrutinize its characteristic features and principal actors, policies and interests. Against this backdrop, the introductory article of this Special Issue aims at providing a contextualised assessment of the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism while discussing the impact of the Lisbon Treaty upon this policy field. It proceeds with an examination of the policies, interests and actorness dynamics associated with the EUs counter-terrorism policy in highlighting the major findings and conclusions conveyed by the five contributions to this Special Issue. Its conclusion points to possible avenues for future research on the basis of identified underdeveloped topics, under-theorised aspects and neglected issues in the existing literature.

The approach of the European Union (EU) to the fight against terrorism has been a challenging topic for scholars whose research interests focus on European integration, in general, and on the Unions foreign and security policy, in particular. This is hardly surprising given the multi-level/cross-institutional nature of the subject which encompasses both internal and external policies while calling for a combined array of state and EU actors, institutions, agencies and instruments.