The Politics of European Security Policies
This book is a timely investigation into the European security policy dynamic from the perspective of actors engaged in the contentious policy process. Instead of looking at security actors in isolation from one another, this book enquires into the practice of the policy process and maps out the constellations of formal and informal actors sponsoring concrete ideas on what European security should be about. The understandings of security shift and advocating a particular reading of security involves entering the political contest with actors advancing different conceptions. The contributors analyse these different modalities, overlapping scenes and shifting meanings that bring about EU security policies. Our case studies illustrate how these processes unfold both at the intra-EU level, where different institutions supply and endorse their security framings, and vis--vis the EU and its neighbours.
The purpose of this book is to uncover, by pluralistic means, the rules of the game that structure the field of the EUs security making. That way, rather than impose a rigid theoretical model, the editors structure the inquiry around three concepts: security, politics, and policy.
This book was published as a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society.
Xymena Kurowska is an Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest in the Department of International Relations and European Studies. Her research concentrates on interdisciplinary approaches to EUs security policy, international statebuilding and security theory. She is further interested in interpretive policy analysis and ethnographic methods in IR.
Patryk Pawlak is a Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris where he deals with transatlantic relations and the EU internal security. His research focuses in particular on the interaction between internal and external dimensions of security in such areas as border management as well as information and intelligence sharing.
ad memoriam
Peter Mair who encouraged this project with great kindness
The Politics of European Security Policies
Edited by
Xymena Kurowska and Patryk Pawlak
First published 2012
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Contents
Gilles de Kerchove
Xymena Kurowska & Patryk Pawlak
Vincenzo Randazzo
Xymena Kurowska
Meng-Hsuan Chou
Patryk Pawlak
Gregory Mounier
Katrin Kinzelbach & Julia Kozma
Marie V. Gibert
Xymena Kurowska & Patryk Pawlak
Contributors
Meng-Hsuan Chou is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at ARENA. She graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in European Public Administration from Leiden University. Hsuan read the MPhil in European Politics and Society at St Antonys College, Oxford University and completed her PhD titled Historical institutionalism and the evolution of European Unions asylum and immigration acquis (19922004) at Cambridge University. Her recent publications include The Free Movement of Sex Workers in the European Union in A. Luedtke (Ed.) Migrants and Minorities: the European Response (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010), Transformation through Layering(s)? The Case of Researcher Mobility in the Construction of the European Research Area in M. Vukasovic et al. (Eds) Effects of higher education reforms: Change dynamics (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2011), and the article Constructing an Internal Market for Research through Sectoral and Lateral Strategies: Layering, the European Commission and the Fifth Freedom is forthcoming.
Marie V. Gibert is the Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her PhD research focused on multilateral cooperation between Europe and West Africa in the field of security and has led her to carry out field research in a number of capital cities in West Africa and Europe. Recent publications include: with N. Bagayoko, The linkage between security, governance and development from an institutional perspective: The European Union in Africa, Journal of Development Studies, 45(5), pp. 790815, 2009; The difficult exercise of conflict prevention: The European Union in the Mano River Basin (West Africa) in A. Mellbourn & P. Wallensteen (Eds) Third Parties in Conflict Prevention (Hedemora: Gidlund, Anna Lindh Edition Volume V, 2008).
Gilles de Kerchove is the European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator. Prior to his appointment, Mr de Kerchove was the Director for Justice and Home Affairs at the EU Council Secretariat and performed several duties within European and national administration. He is also a European Law Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, the Free University of Brussels and the St. Louis University Faculty (Brussels). He is the author of several publications on European law and EU Justice and Home Affairs. Mr de Kerchove holds a law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain and Master of Laws from Yale Law School.
Katrin Kinzelbach is a Thyssen Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where she works in the Rising Powers and Global Governance program. She is currently researching Chinas influence on the international human rights regime. Prior to GPPi, Katrin worked at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna (20072010) and at the United Nations Development Programme (20012007). Katrin holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna, an MA in International Peace and Security from Kings College in London and a Magister/Laurea dual degree jointly awarded by the Universities of Florence and Bonn.