Abstract
The first two decades of EU counterterrorism policy are emblematic of the emergence of an internal-external security nexus. This has occurred through the EU's collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat that blurs the traditional divide between internal and external security requiring multidimensional and transboundary EU counterterrorism policies and practises. The EU's status quo discourse of terrorism as primarily a national and internal security threat to be dealt with by domestic security agencies has transformed into strategic discourses, policies and practices that frame terrorism as a transnational threat to the EU requiring a transnational response that integrates internal and external policies, institutions, and capabilities. While institutional silos, turf wars, and differing institutional cultures continue to hamper the routinization of a transboundary response, this collective securitization of terrorism as a transboundary threat, within a wider internal-external security nexus, is reshaping the nature of the EU as a security actor.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Collective Securitization and Crisification of EU Policy Change |
Subtitle of host publication | Two Decades of EU Counterterrorism Policy |
Editors | Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Chapter | 7 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003291374 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781032271040 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 22 Aug 2022 |
Keywords
- European Union
- counterterrorism
- securitisation
- internal-external security nexus