Searching for a Strategy for the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
This book examines the vision and strategy of the European Unions (EU) Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), which has become one of the key objectives of the EU. Recent events have also highlighted the saliency of several of the policy issues at the heart of the AFSJ. Amongst them, one can mention the terrorist attacks in 2015 in Paris and 2016 in Brussels and the ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean region. At the same time, the end of the Stockholm programme, which provided the strategic framework for the development of the AFSJ between 2010 and 2014, has been followed by the adoption of new strategic guidelines, which can only be described as a short, vague and general document. It is therefore paradoxical that, at a time when AFSJ matters such as asylum, migration, borders, terrorism, police and judicial cooperation have never been so salient, the EU finds itself, for the first time ever, devoid of any significant, over-arching strategy for the development of its AFSJ. This book was published as a special issue of European Politics and Society.
Sarah Lonard is an Assistant Professor in International Affairs and the Associate Dean for Research and External Grants at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She has recently co-edited Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East (2015) and Justice and Home Affairs Agencies in the European Union (2014).
Christian Kaunert is a Full Professor of Political Science and the Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Searching for a Strategy for the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
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Contents
Sarah Lonard and Christian Kaunert
1 Deliberating justice policy in the European Union: a discursive perspective on
day-to-day decision-making in European Unions criminal justice cooperation
Santino Lo Bianco
2 The development of the external dimension of the AFSJ new challenges
of the EU legal and policy framework
Maria ONeill
3 The political-legal nexus in EU counter-terrorism: an assessment of the
two-track influences between the EU and the UN
Bruno Oliveira Martins
4 Solidarity and sharing in the Common European Asylum System:
the case of Syrian refugees
Eleni Karageorgiou
Ester Herlin-Karnell
Raphael Bossong and Hendrik Hegemann
Satoko Horii
Alexandra Schwell
The chapters in this book were originally published in European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Sarah Lonard and Christian Kaunert
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 143149
Santino Lo Bianco
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 150165
Maria ONeill
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 166180
Bruno Oliveira Martins
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 181195
Eleni Karageorgiou
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp.196214
Ester Herlin-Karnell
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 215225
Raphael Bossong and Hendrik Hegemann
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 226241
Satoko Horii
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 242258
Alexandra Schwell
European Politics and Society, volume 17, issue 2 (March 2016) pp. 259276
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Raphael Bossong is based at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany.
Hendrik Hegemann is based at the School of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, University of Osnabrck, Osnabrck, Germany.
Ester Herlin-Karnell is a Professor of EU Constitutional Law and Justice and a University Research Chair at VU University, Amsterdam. She is the director and the founder of the VU Centre for European Legal Studies.
Satoko Horii is an Assistant Professor at Akita International University, Japan.
Eleni Karageorgiou is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Christian Kaunert is a Full Professor of Political Science and the Academic Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Sarah Lonard is an Assistant Professor in International Affairs and the Associate Dean for Research and External Grants at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She has recently co-edited Western Foreign Policy and the Middle East (2015) and Justice and Home Affairs Agencies in the European Union (2014).
Santino Lo Bianco is a Lecturer in Politics and Law of the European Union at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.
Bruno Oliveira Martins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. His current research interests include EU security, counter-terrorism, European constitutionalism and international security.
Maria ONeill is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Abertay, Scotland. Her research focuses on EU Justice and Home Affairs, in particular the external relations of the EU in the AFSJ, counter-terrorism and trafficking in human beings.