EU and Counter-Terrorism

<p>This book offers a theoretically informed analysis of how coherently the European Union fights terrorism in the post-9/11 era.</p><p>Few studies have looked at how the European Union has transformed into a relevant international anti-terrorist actor. Yet as a reaction to the terrorist attacks in New York Madrid and London the European Union has become increasingly active in the field of counter-terrorism. It has acted to coordinate member states’ policies to harmonise national legislation and even to support operational work conducted by national authorities. The EU’s reaction to the threat of transnational terrorism has been complex and multidimensional ranging from the exchange of information between police and intelligence agencies to judicial cooperation and from infrastructure protection to the fight against terrorist recruitment and financing. This book offers a comprehensive empirical account of the polity policy and politics of EU counter-terrorism based on an analysis of academic literature official documents and about fifty interviews with policy-makers experts and practitioners carried out at EU institutions (i.e. Commission Council Eurojust Europol) Permanent Representations of the EU Member States and national capitals.</p><p>This book will be of much interest to students of counter-terrorism EU politics security studies and IR in general.</p>