Christian Kaunert - Developing European Internal Security Policy: After the Stockholm Summit and the Lisbon Treaty

Developing European Internal Security Policy

The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states, especially into internal security, or Justice and Home Affairs. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), as it has been renamed in the Amsterdam Treaty, has seen significant policy developments since the late 1990s. In fact, there has been no other example of a policy-making area making its way so quickly and comprehensively to the centre of the treaties and to the top of the EUs policy-making agenda. After major treaty revisions in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, and, finally the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, as well as an increased political impetus through the European Council Summits in Tampere (1999), the Hague (2004), and Stockholm (2009), the area appears as one of the most promising policy fields for integration in the EU in the foreseeable future. This process has deepened even more significantly after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States, on 11 March 2004 in Madrid, and on 7 July 2005 in London.

This book is the first to analyse these hugely topical developments in European internal security at both the treaty and policy levels, as well as its implementation at the national level, from various disciplinary perspectives (political science, law, criminology, etc).

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

Christian Kaunert is Senior Lecturer in EU Politics and International Relations at the University of Salford, UK and Marie Curie (Senior) Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy.

Sarah Lonard is Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, UK and Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, France.

Developing European Internal Security Policy

After the Stockholm Summit and the Lisbon Treaty

Edited by

Christian Kaunert and Sarah Lonard

First published 2012

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Contents

Christian Kaunert and Sarah Lonard

Dora Kostakopoulou

Christian Kaunert

Ariadna Ripoll Servent

Eiko Thielemann and Nadine El-Enany

Sarah Lonard

Vihar Georgiev

Christian Kaunert and Marina Della Giovanna

Javier Argomaniz

Alexandra Schwell

After the Stockholm programme: an area of freedom, security and justice in the European Union?

The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states, especially into internal security, or Justice and Home Affairs(JHA). The area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ), as it has been renamed in the Amsterdam Treaty, has seen significant policy developments since the late 1990s (Kaunert 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c). Monar (1999) underlines the fact that there has been no other example of a policy-making area making its way so quickly and comprehensively to the centre of the treaties and to the top of the EUs policy-making agenda. After major treaty revisions in Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, and, finally the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, as well as an increased political impetus through the European Council Summits in Tampere (1999), the Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2009), the area appears as one of the most promising policy fields for integration in the EU in the foreseeable future. This process has deepened even more significantly after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States, on 11 March 2004 in Madrid and on 7 July 2005 in London. Some scholars have even suggested that these empirical developments, and the resulting increasing involvement of the EU in internal security matters, have changed EU governance more generally. This special issue explores these significant developments in the AFSJ at both the treaty and policy levels, as well as its implementation at the national level, from various disciplinary perspectives.

The EUSIM project and the conference on internal security policies in the EU after the Stockholm programme: an area of freedom, security and justice(AFSJ) in the EU?

This special issue is derived from a conference on the AFSJ that took place at the University of Salford, Centre for European Security, on 2829 January 2010. This conference is part of the EUSIM project, which is generously funded by the European Commission under the Jean Monnet programme/Lifelong Learning programme in 200912. Many thanks are therefore due to the European Commission for this important financial support, without which the organisation of this conference would not have been possible. The main aim of the EUSIM project is to bring the study and research of the EU closer to students of a wide variety of backgrounds. Popular discourse in Britain often depicts the EU as an undemocratic and bureaucratic monster imposing its will upon the unwilling and sovereignty-less Member States. Consequently, students are often thought to be ideologically opposed to, or, at the very minimum, not interested in studying and researching the EU. This project aims to change this perception. It does so through the application of a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to the European Union Simulation Jean Monnet module, which aims to support students in becoming independent, enterprising problem-solvers, through the examination of real-life EU policy problems. In addition to more traditional classes that introduce students to policy-making in the EU, students are given a policy scenario and negotiate in weekly sessions akin to Council meetings, before the culmination of the negotiations at a session modelled upon a European Council Summit. The scenario in 2009/10 was on the theme of the AFSJ, and all students were given free access to the latest cutting-edge research on their research topic by attending the conference and will gain further insights through the publication of this special issue. Bringing together students, researchers and practitioners considerably enhances the understanding and the enthusiasm of students who would normally not come into contact with the EU. The interaction between students, researchers and policy-makers has been of tremendous benefit to all involved.