European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe

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by  Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard (eds.)

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European Security,
Terrorism and Intelligence
Tackling New Security Challenges
in Europe
Editedby
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SeniorLecturerinInternationalRelationsandPolitics,UniversityofDundee,UK
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LecturerinPolitics,UniversityofDundee,UK
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
NotesonContributors viii
1 Introduction–BeyondEUCounter-terrorismCooperation:
EuropeanSecurity,TerrorismandIntelligence 1
SarahLéonardandChristianKaunert
Part I TheEuropeanUnionasaSecurityActor
2 TheEuropeanUnionandInternationalSecurity:
DevelopingaComprehensiveApproach 17
KamilZwolski
3 TheEuropeanUnionasaComprehensivePoliceActor 40
StephenRozée
Part II Counter-terrorismandPolicinginEurope
4 Europol’sCounter-terrorismRole:AChicken-EggDilemma 65
OldrichBures
5 GuardingEU-wideCounter-terrorismPolicing:The
StruggleforSoundParliamentaryScrutinyofEuropol 96
ClaudiaHillebrand
Part III Counter-terrorismandIntelligencein
Europe
6 Information-sharingandtheEUCounter-terrorismPolicy:
A‘SecuritisationTool’Approach 127
ThierryBalzacqandSarahLéonard
7 AvailabilitybyStealth?EUInformation-sharingin
TransatlanticPerspective 143
JohnD.Occhipinti
v
vi Contents
8 Ona‘ContinuumwithExpansion’?Intelligence
CooperationinEuropeintheEarly21stCentury 185
AdamD.M.Svendsen
9 SecurityPartnerships,IntelligenceandtheRecastingof
theUKMonopolyofViolenceinthe21stCentury 215
CarlosOrtiz
10 Conclusion–EuropeanSecurity,Terrorismand
Intelligence:AssessingthePathofDevelopment 229
AlexMacKenzieandKamilZwolski
Index 244
Acknowledgements
This manuscript was completed while Christian Kaunert and Sarah
Léonard both held Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships, at the
European University Institute, Florence, and Sciences Po, Paris, respec-
tively.Theywouldliketothankthesetwoinstitutionsfortheirsupport,
as well as the European Commission for funding these fellowships
through the 7th European Community Framework Programme. They
also would like to thank all the colleagues who provided constructive
feedbackonearlierversionsofthechaptersofthisbook.
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Contributors
Thierry Balzacq is Tocqueville Professor of International Relations at
the University of Namur, Belgium, and currently Visiting Research Fel-
lowattheInstituteforAdvancedStudiesintheHumanities(IASH)atthe
University of Edinburgh, UK. A former Research Fellow at the Centre
for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, he has held visiting
positions at Harvard University; the University of Wales, Aberystwyth;
SciencesPoParis;theEcoleNationaled’Administration;andtheUniversity
ofLouvain.Hisresearchinterestsincludecriticalapproachestosecurity,
securitisationtheoryandIRtheory.
Oldrich Bures is Head of the Department of International Relations
and European Studies and Head of the Centre for Security Studies at
Metropolitan University, Prague. His research focuses on conflict res-
olution and international security, with special emphasis on United
Nations peacekeeping operations, private military companies and the
EUcounter-terrorismpolicy.HisworkhasnotablybeenpublishedinTer-
rorismandPoliticalViolence,theInternationalStudiesReview,International
Peacekeeping, Global Change, Peace and Security and the Journal of Con-
temporaryEuropeanResearch.HismostrecentbookisEUCounterterrorism
Policy:APaperTiger?(2011).
Claudia Hillebrand is Lecturer in Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism
at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.
Her main research interests include intelligence accountability and
oversight, counter-terrorism policing, international intelligence, and
police cooperation. Her PhD project was supported by a Marie Curie
Early Stage Research Fellowship of the European Commission. She has
recently completed a monograph on the democratic legitimacy of EU-
wide counter-terrorism policing and has also published on the CIA’s
‘extraordinary’renditioncampaign.
Christian Kaunert is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International
Relations at the University of Dundee, UK, and Marie Curie Research
Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS),
European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He holds a PhD
viii
NotesonContributors ix
inInternationalPoliticsfromtheUniversityofWales,Aberystwyth,UK.
He has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home
Affairs and a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2012–2016). His
articles have appeared in journals such as European Security, Journal of
EuropeanIntegration,TerrorismandPoliticalViolence,StudiesinConflictand
TerrorismandtheJournalofEuropeanPublicPolicy.Hismonographenti-
tled European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the
Area of Freedom, Security and Justice was published by Manchester Uni-
versityPressin2010.HeiseditoroftheJournalofContemporaryEuropean
Research (JCER), as well as a member of the executive committee of
UACES.
Sarah Léonard is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee, UK,
and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for European Studies,
Sciences Po, Paris, France. She received her PhD in International Poli-
ticsfromtheUniversityofWales,Aberystwyth,UK.Sheisalsoeditorof
the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER). Her articles have
appeared in journals such as European Security, Terrorism and Political
ViolenceandtheJournalofEuropeanPublicPolicy.
Alex MacKenzie is a researcher based in the Department of Politics,
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, at the University of Liv-
erpool. He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Salford, UK.
His research interests include the EU as a global actor, EU counter-
terrorism cooperation with third states and the role of the European
ParliamentinEUsecuritymatters.Hisarticleshaveappearedinjournals
suchasEuropeanForeignAffairsReview,EuropeanSecurityandPerspectives
onEuropeanPoliticsandSociety.
John D. Occhipinti is Professor of Political Science and Department
Chair at Canisius College in Buffalo. He earned his MA and PhD from
theUniversityofMarylandatCollegePark.DrOcchipintihaspublished
widely on internal security policy regarding the EU and transatlantic
relations,including‘ParallelPathsandProductivePartners:theEUand
US on Counter-terrorism’, in F. Lemieux (ed.) Emerging Initiatives and
ContemporaryObstaclesinPoliceCooperation(2010),and‘PartnerorPush-
Over? EU Relations with the US on Internal Security’, in D. Hamilton
(ed.) Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic US-EU Partnership (2010).
He has lectured for the US Foreign Service Institute, presented his
researchattheStateDepartmentandbriefednewlyappointedAmerican
ambassadorstotheEU.