Christian Kaunert
Biographic Data
| ID | 388568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Kaunert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaunert |
| SIGNATURE | KAUNERT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4493-2235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 77 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Türkiye, Libya and Security Relations: Mena Regional Relations in the Shadow of International Organisations
Kuloghlis as an Important Fact in Turkish-Libyan Relationship
Response to Shapira
This letter is in response to Itai Shapira’s letter, which referred to our article recently published in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IJIC).1 In an attempt to
Who Is the EU for? Race, Europe, and the Global Order
The European Union stands at a crossroads. Its founding promises of peace, convergence, and multilateralism are increasingly strained by debt, migration, sovereignty, and militarization. The introduction to this Special Issue begins with the question: who is the EU for? To stretch this question analytically we move beyond conventional debates on globalization and sovereignty foregrounding the colonial and racialized conditions that shape European…
China’s Stance in United Nations General Assembly Special Emergency Sessions on Ukraine
This study examines China’s stance in United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) emergency sessions on Ukraine through the lens of the securitisation theory, situating it within the broader historical trajectory of China’s UNGA practices since its admission in 1971. The study demonstrates that China’s rhetorical strategy is not an isolated response to the Ukraine crisis, but part of a long-standing pattern of ideological securitisation and pragmatic …
The TTP challenge in Pakistan: Role of legitimacy and its impact on securitisation process and counterinsurgency efforts
Islamic State, Media, and Propaganda: Performances of the ‘Visual Caliphate’
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This topical book investigates the breadth of visual broadcasts and performances of the Islamic State (IS). Moign Khawaja and Christian Kaunert present a rigorous examination of how and why IS visually projected its abilities and strength as a modern state, and provide insights to the purposes behind thei…
Strategic Communications' Role in Counter-Terrorism: The Power of Counter-Narratives
Transnational Unconventional Organized Crime: A National and Global Security Concern: Volume II: Regional and National Perspectives
Transnational Unconventional Organized Crime: A National and Global Security Concern: Volume I: Thematic Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence for Global Counter-Terrorism: Utilizing Deep Learning and Innovative Strategies
Containment vs. confrontation: Trump 2.0 and a nuclear Iran
While Iran is thought of as a nuclear threshold state, Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign and threats of military intervention are more likely to escalate tensions than compel compliance. While military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities remains a possibility, such an attack could accelerate rather than curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Instead, a balanced diplomatic approach—one that addresses Iran’s security concerns—may be more effective t…
Intelligence and Securitization: Aman 2023’s Failed Conception
Using the Israeli case study of the Military Intelligence Directorate (AMAN), this article presents the unique role of intelligence organizations in securitization processes, in which security threats are defined as such. Similar to the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, using its epistemic authority to define what are security threats and what are not, AMAN had a central and decisive role in shaping the concept, according to which Hamas is dete…
Advancing a geopolitical Europe: The new EU leadership and the Iranian conundrum
Since 2019 European leaders have emphasized the necessity for the EU to proactively project power and embrace its geopolitical responsibilities. Although leaders have developed the concept of a ‘geopolitical EU’ as a new discourse, it remains largely unimplemented. Following the June 2024 elections to the European Parliament, a new EU leadership has taken shape amid escalating geopolitical risks that go beyond Russia's war in Ukraine. This develo…
Forward Defence, Hamas‐Hezbollah War With Israel and Iran's Path to Nuclear Bombs
In the wake of the Hamas–Hezbollah war with Israel following the 7 October 2023, the Iran–Israel shadow war escalated into direct military conflict. While addressing the characteristics of Iran's deterrence strategy, the present contribution argues that in case of escalation in the Middle East region, the so‐called ‘forward defence’ doctrine may not guarantee the survival of the Islamic Republic in Iran. Consequently, any direct military aggressi…
The Geopolitics of AI-Driven Arms Races
This forum highlights the disruptive implications of AI for the geopolitical landscape by examining its integration into command-and-control systems, military doctrines, and global security discourses. These transformations are embedded in core debates on spatial power projection, supply chain control, technological sovereignty, shifting international alliances, and the changing geography of innovation hubs. AI-assisted arms races are thus unders…
When securitisation meets resistance: A counter-securitisation analysis of Pakistan's May 09 incident
China's Strategic Threat Narratives: An Ideationalist Critical Security Perspective on the Russian-Ukraine War
This article examines China's political discourse on the Russian invasion of Ukraine from February 2022 to March 2023 through an ideationalist security framework. Using securitization theory and discourse analysis, we analyzed 117 official Chinese statements. We find that China supports Russia's securitization narrative while aligning with Western ideas when strategically beneficial. Using concepts like "Limitless Partnership" and "UN Principles,…
Cybercrime, Digital Forensic Readiness, and Financial Crime Investigation in Nigeria
Methodology
Special Forum on intelligence and theory
The literature on intelligence and theory has developed considerably in recent years. This Special Forum takes as its point of departure four recent publications that have made a particular contrib
Migrants in the throes of multiple crises: Fragmented state authority, informal networks and forced (im)mobilities in Libya
This article investigates the influence of non-state actors' activities on migrants' journeys and the resulting phenomena of 'stranded migrants' and forced (im)mobilities in Libya.Due to the intense instability in Libya in the post-Gaddafi era and increasing restrictions on EU borders, return migration became a major plank of the EU's migration policy.The article examines the distinct nature of the European Union's externalisation policies and pr…
Competitive Authoritarian Regimes, Securitisation Techniques and the Role of Audiences: The Case of Pakistan
The article investigates the importance of the audience (general public) in the securitisation process. It then applies the concept in the context of competitive authoritarianism using Pakistan as a case study. The article argues that similar to securitisation processes, the audience plays a significant role in the (de-) democratisation process. The article contributes to both theoretical and empirical literature on securitisation and democratisa…
Countering Terrorist and Criminal Financing: Theory and Practice
Israel: National Security and Securitization: The Role of the United States in Defining What Counts
The development of the EU asylum policy: Venue-Shopping in Perspective
The development of the EU asylum and migration policy is often explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by policy-makers to an EU policy venue in order to avoid national constraints. This article demonstrates \nthat, contrary to what would have been expected on the basis of this widespread view, EU co-operation on asylum matters has actually led to a rise in the legal standards \napplicable to asylum-seekers and refugees. Th…
The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union
The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices
This article investigates the evolving security practices of one of the key actors in the handling of asylum-seekers and migrants at the external borders of the European Union (EU) Member States, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, widely referred to as ‘Frontex’. It does so by applying a revised version of the Copenhagen School’s securitisation framework, which focuses on security practices and is underpinned by an understanding of secur…
Without the Power of Purse or Sword”: The European Arrest Warrant and the Role of the Commission
The ‘area of freedom, security and justice’ in the EU has experienced significant developments during the Tampere programme (1999–2004). This article makes two significant points. First, European integration is possible in areas of ‘high politics’, despite all expectations. Secondly, the Commission can (though not always does) play a significant role in this process — the role of a supranational policy entrepreneur. This empirical twin‐argument r…
Liberty versus Security? EU Asylum Policy and the European Commission
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) experienced significant developments during the Tampere programme (1999 – 2004). This article analyses how security is constituted or viewed by the European Union in the area of asylum policy; more importantly how the European Commission, in the face of the emerging discourse on the ‘war on terror’ decided to push for a more inclusive agenda. Thus, the European Commission can (though not always does) play …
Europol and EU Counterterrorism: International Security Actorness in the External Dimension
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
The European Union Simulation: From Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to Student Interest
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, contrary to a commonly held view, it is possible to teach the European Union (EU) in a way that makes students enthusiastic about the subject. The paper is informed by my experience of leading a EU simulation module, based on a modified problem-based learning (PBL) approach. The idea is to share my experience and prompt a debate on (1) how the EU can be taught in exciting ways for students, and (2) ho…
Introduction: Supranational governance and European Union security after the Lisbon Treaty - Exogenous shocks, policy entrepreneurs and 11 September 2001
The EU has been making strong inroads into the realm of security over the last few years. This is a remarkable development, since security matters used to be the preserve of states. The articles presented in this special issue all testify to the breadth of the EU security agenda, as they all try to capture some aspects of the EU’s fast-changing security policies following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009. In parallel w…
De-centring the Securitisation of Asylum and Migration in the European Union: Securitisation, Vulnerability and the Role of Turkey
This article contributes to the debates on de-centring the analysis of migration governance in Europe by focusing on the potential role of external actors in the securitisation of asylum and migration in the European Union (EU). Although there has been a growing amount of literature on the securitisation of asylum and migration in the EU, the role possibly played by external actors in this securitisation process has not been considered to date. T…
EU Counterterrorism and the European Neighbourhood Policy: An Appraisal of the Southern Dimension
Terrorists trained on European soil, but originating from the Middle East, attacked the world's only superpower on September 11, 2001. Countering this terrorist threat has become an increasingly significant part of European Foreign Policy. At the same time, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has become an increasingly important dimension of European Foreign Policy. This article examines the extent to which counterterrorism has occupied a pro…
The European Union Asylum Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme: Towards Supranational Governance in a Common Area of Protection
Cooperation on asylum has significantly developed amongst the European Union Member States in recent years. This is remarkable given the sensitivity of asylum matters, which are inherently highly political. All the articles presented in this special issue aim to capture some aspects of the European Union fast changing asylum policy following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and the adoption of the Stockholm Programme in December 2009.…
International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
A much-anticipated end of the COVID-19 pandemic is on the horizon. It is important to reflect on the ways in which the pandemic has impacted the international politics of migration and especially on the migration-security nexus, which is still little understood but affecting policies and population movements with future implications. How the pandemic has shaped tradeoffs between securitization of migration, health, and economic concerns in govern…
Securitization, fear politics, and the formation of an opposition alliance in competitive authoritarian regimes
This article examines how opposition parties with diverse ideologies can form alliances in competitive authoritarian regimes despite the securitization strategy used by authoritarian incumbents. Using Turkey as a case study, the article demonstrates that an authoritarian leader may associate terrorism with opposition parties and may disseminate this fear to manipulate moderate voters and prevent coalition formation between niche parties. By analy…
Thick Europe, ontological security and parochial Europe: The Re-Emergence of Far-Right Extremism and Terrorism After the Refugee Crisis of 2015
This article examines the re-emergence of far-right extremism and terrorism as the adversary of European integration. The European Union (EU) becoming a grievance factor for far-right extremism and terror is qualitatively new. This article examines the emergence of this new actor in line with the changing four faces of the EU presented in this special issue, namely thin, thick, parochial and global. Paradoxically, the core argument of this articl…
Securitization of Covid-19 as a Security Norm: WHO Norm Entrepreneurship and Norm Cascading
In this article, we analyze the emergence of a global security norm of the COVID-19 epidemic as a threat to international security. This crisis is one of the gravest crises that humanity has experienced since the end of World War II in terms of the number of people infected and died, but also in terms of the economic consequences. Here, we provide a framework for understanding the securitization of the COVID-19 epidemic as an international norm d…
Radicalisation, Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Conflict: A Playground for the Far-Right
Ukraine has been viewed by some as having become a training ground, networking opportunity, and general hub for the far-right due to the conflict in the east of the country, which began in 2014. With this type of terrorism on the rise in the West and events like the storming of the US Capitol Building in January 2021 fresh in the memory, it should come as no surprise that any such possibilities will generate concern. To investigate the types and …
EU Eastern Partnership, Ontological Security and EU- Ukraine/Russian warfare
This article aims to analyse security within Europe’s Eastern Partnership as perceived from the outside – notably by Russia. It analyses the impact of Russia’s security on European security thinking in its Eastern Partnership through the lens of ontological security. Russia’s relationship with the West, based on its ontological security fears, is characterised by the collective trauma and stigma of USSR disintegration. Europe’s ontological securi…
Introduction: Resilient states versus resilient societies? Whose security does the EU protect through the Eastern Partnership in times of geopolitical crises
The European Union (EU) is making strong inroads into areas of security traditionally reserved to states. Security concerns are increasingly triggered by fundamental challenges, such as terrorism, climate change, migration, and many other 'soft security issues'. Resilience has become a term of reference in the EU's official foreign policy discourse, triggering an associated 'resilience. Our contribution aims to analyse the 'many faces of resilien…
Collective securitization and crisification of EU policy change: Two decades of EU counterterrorism policy
One of the founding fathers of the European Union (EU) was very correct in suggesting that people would only recognize the necessity of change once a crisis was upon them, as the “war on terror” would show. The EU, as this special issue shows, joined in this “war on terror”, whereby it collectively securitized the threat to become a European, rather than a national security threat – a European “war on terror”. It aims to assess the collective sec…
Refugee flows and terrorism in the European Union: Securitization through association
Beyond Stockholm: In search of a strategy for the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
The development of the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ) has been identified by the Lisbon Treaty (2009) as one of the key objectives of the European Union (EU). Recent events have also highlighted the saliency of several of the policy issues at the heart of the AFSJ. Amongst them, one can mention the terrorist attacks in 2015 in Paris and the ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean region. At the same time, the e…
Venue-Shopping and the Role of Non-governmental Organisations in the Development of the European Union Asylum Policy
The development of cooperation on asylum and migration matters in the European Union (EU) has often been explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by national policy-makers to a new EU policy venue in order to circumvent domestic obstacles. However, focusing on the case of asylum, recent literature has argued that, contrary to expectations, the move to the EU policy venue has actually resulted in a rise in asylum standards ov…
Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education
This article investigates the securitisation of the higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive practices are framed by the habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas in Afghanistan, securitising actors converge from different habitus (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) to bar the ‘other’ ethnic or social groups fro…
Desecuritisation, deradicalisation, and national identity in Afghanistan: Higher education and desecuritisation processes
This article assesses the processes and trends of desecuritisation through the deradicalisation of identity politics within the higher education sector in Afghanistan. It examines the desecuritisation of radicalisation through efforts directed at deradicalisation in the context of a securitised conflict environment. The article draws on the data generated through interviews and discussions with actors engaged with higher education. Higher educati…
Higher education as a catalyst of peacebuilding in violence and conflict-affected contexts: The case of Afghanistan
This article evaluates the role of higher education (HE) in peacebuilding in post-2001 Afghanistan. Drawing on other cases than Afghanistan, the article situates the role of HE within the general peacebuilding/conflict mitigation debates, followed by a discussion on ways HE might contribute to or undermine peacebuilding processes. The article conceptualises the link between HE and peacebuilding and/or conflict resolution and situates HE within br…
Without the Power of Purse or Sword”: The European Arrest Warrant and the Role of the Commission
The ‘area of freedom, security and justice’ in the EU has experienced significant developments during the Tampere programme (1999–2004). This article makes two significant points. First, European integration is possible in areas of ‘high politics’, despite all expectations. Secondly, the Commission can (though not always does) play a significant role in this process — the role of a supranational policy entrepreneur. This empirical twin‐argument r…
Explaining Decisions in the European Union ‐ by Arne Niemann
EXPLAINING DECISIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Arne Niemann Cambridge University Press, 2006, 367 pp., £50 (hb), ISBN: 0521864054 This book aims to explain the outcomes of decision making at the level of the European Union, and, consequently, the factors driving such decisions. It analyses EU action at three different levels: (1) the supranational; (2) the domestic; and (3) the international. Thus, it provides a novel approach that attempts to combin…
Liberty versus Security? EU Asylum Policy and the European Commission
The Common European Asylum System (CEAS) experienced significant developments during the Tampere programme (1999 – 2004). This article analyses how security is constituted or viewed by the European Union in the area of asylum policy; more importantly how the European Commission, in the face of the emerging discourse on the ‘war on terror’ decided to push for a more inclusive agenda. Thus, the European Commission can (though not always does) play …
The Lisbon Treaty and the Constitutionalization of the EU
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The European Union Simulation: From Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to Student Interest
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that, contrary to a commonly held view, it is possible to teach the European Union (EU) in a way that makes students enthusiastic about the subject. The paper is informed by my experience of leading a EU simulation module, based on a modified problem-based learning (PBL) approach. The idea is to share my experience and prompt a debate on (1) how the EU can be taught in exciting ways for students, and (2) ho…
The External Dimension of EU Counter-Terrorism Relations: Competences, Interests, and Institutions
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Europol and EU Counterterrorism: International Security Actorness in the External Dimension
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Introduction: Developments in European Security
EU Counterterrorism and the European Neighbourhood Policy: An Appraisal of the Southern Dimension
Terrorists trained on European soil, but originating from the Middle East, attacked the world's only superpower on September 11, 2001. Countering this terrorist threat has become an increasingly significant part of European Foreign Policy. At the same time, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has become an increasingly important dimension of European Foreign Policy. This article examines the extent to which counterterrorism has occupied a pro…
The European Union Asylum Policy after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme: Towards Supranational Governance in a Common Area of Protection
Cooperation on asylum has significantly developed amongst the European Union Member States in recent years. This is remarkable given the sensitivity of asylum matters, which are inherently highly political. All the articles presented in this special issue aim to capture some aspects of the European Union fast changing asylum policy following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and the adoption of the Stockholm Programme in December 2009.…
Somalia versus Captain ‘Hook’: Assessing the EU's security actorness in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa
An internal security problem of Somalia—state failure from internal conflict resulting in increased piracy—has increasingly become an external security problem for the European Union (EU). This article contributes to analysing the role of the EU as a security actor in countering piracy off the Horn of Africa, by examining three different dimensions of the EU response to this problem: (a) the immediate EU response (the EU military mission EUNAVFOR…
Introduction: Supranational governance and European Union security after the Lisbon Treaty - Exogenous shocks, policy entrepreneurs and 11 September 2001
The EU has been making strong inroads into the realm of security over the last few years. This is a remarkable development, since security matters used to be the preserve of states. The articles presented in this special issue all testify to the breadth of the EU security agenda, as they all try to capture some aspects of the EU’s fast-changing security policies following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009. In parallel w…
Between a rock and a hard place?’: The European Union’s financial sanctions against suspected terrorists, multilateralism and human rights
This article focuses on the financial sanctions adopted by the European Union (EU) against individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. This sanctions regime has been sharply criticised for its negative impact on human rights and has seen several judicial challenges before the European Courts. In contrast with most of the existing literature, which focuses on legal issues or examines the consequences of the EU financial sanctions…
The development of the EU asylum policy: Venue-Shopping in Perspective
The development of the EU asylum and migration policy is often explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by policy-makers to an EU policy venue in order to avoid national constraints. This article demonstrates \nthat, contrary to what would have been expected on the basis of this widespread view, EU co-operation on asylum matters has actually led to a rise in the legal standards \napplicable to asylum-seekers and refugees. Th…
Venue-Shopping and the Role of Non-governmental Organisations in the Development of the European Union Asylum Policy
The development of cooperation on asylum and migration matters in the European Union (EU) has often been explained as the result of ‘venue-shopping’, that is, the move by national policy-makers to a new EU policy venue in order to circumvent domestic obstacles. However, focusing on the case of asylum, recent literature has argued that, contrary to expectations, the move to the EU policy venue has actually resulted in a rise in asylum standards ov…
EU Counterterrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: New Potential for Cooperation
The European Union's (EU) relationship with North African countries has long been the subject of intense academic enquiry. For many years, the EU has performed a difficult balancing act between managing the security concerns of its member states, dealing with authoritarian regimes that have questionable human rights records, creating and maintaining good economic relations, and pursuing more normative objectives. Have security objectives overridd…
Special Symposium of Comparative Migration Studies: After the Arab Spring: EU Asylum and Migration Policy in Flux
In recent years, asylum issues have become increasingly contentious in Western Europe and have been at the core of electoral campaigns in several EU Member States (Kaunert, 2009; 2010; Kaunert and Leonard, 2012). In several countries in the European Union (EU), populist or radical right-wing parties campaigning on an anti-immigration platform have achieved strong electoral scores, including the True Finns in Finland, the Freedom Party in Austria …
The EU and the Gulf monarchies: Normative power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement
The Persian Gulf region is of strategic importance to the European Union (EU). Yet, different political realities of authoritarian government in the Gulf challenge crucial parts of EU foreign policy that are based on normative power Europe concepts. Cooperation with the ruling dynasties appears beneficial for EU decision-makers if one looks at the comprehensive agenda of common interests in the Gulf region. In 2004, the EU aimed to build a strate…
Introduction: Supranational governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice after the Stockholm Programme
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristian KaunertChristian Kaunert is Professor of International Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs at the University of Dundee, United Kingdom. He also holds a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (2012–2016) funded by the Seventh European Community Framework Programme. Email: [email protected] D OcchipintiJohn D Occhipinti is Professor of Political Science and direct…
Introduction: Rethinking Western foreign policy and the Middle East
Does the Arab Spring provide a new opening for Western cooperation with the Middle East? The Arab Spring involved a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests in the Arab world, starting on
The counterterrorism agreements of Europol with third countries: Data protection and power asymmetry
This article investigates empirically the impact of power asymmetry and interest formation in the European Union’s (EU) external relations with third countries in the context of the Europol data exchange and counterterrorism agreements. It focuses on three countries, namely the United States, Turkey, and Morocco, which each have a different level of counterterrorism cooperation with the EU. This article argues that the EU acts as a pragmatic acto…
Beyond Stockholm: In search of a strategy for the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
The development of the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ) has been identified by the Lisbon Treaty (2009) as one of the key objectives of the European Union (EU). Recent events have also highlighted the saliency of several of the policy issues at the heart of the AFSJ. Amongst them, one can mention the terrorist attacks in 2015 in Paris and the ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean region. At the same time, the e…
Securitization outside of the West: Conceptualizing the securitization–neo-patrimonialism nexus in Africa
Securitization is arguably the most successful theoretical framework to analyse security beyond the military confines with the nation state as the dominant actor within the international system. Amongst the critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard for analysing emerging challenges, such as migration, terrorism, human security, intra-state and cross-border issues, as well as environmental challenges. Yet, despite its broadening…
The collective securitisation of terrorism in the European Union
Refugees, Security and the European Union
This book analyses the extent and the modalities of the securitization of asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU. It argues that the development of the EU asylum policy, far from 'securitizing' asylum-seekers and refugees, has led to the strengthening and codification of several rights for these two categories of persons. However, the securitization of terrorism and the links that have been constructed between asylum, irregular migration and terro…
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