
Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation
The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
154 pages
978-1-032-92993-4 (ISBN)
Description
Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years. Yet actual cooperation, when viewed closely, proceeds at a halting pace - raising questions as to why cooperation appears so problematic. This book presents a novel, theoretically-informed way to understand internal security cooperation in Europe. The approach treats internal security as a "public good" requiring collective action amongst sovereign governments. All governments must contribute to the production of a public good; once produced, the public good benefits all governments. Fundamental obstacles to producing a public good thus arise, and can help explain the underlying difficulties facing European cooperation on internal security matters. The chapters in this book apply a public goods approach to different internal security issues, ranging from terrorism to border management, and from environmental security to natural disasters. Each study demonstrates how the various goals of internal security cooperation resemble different forms of public goods - and thus present different kinds of obstacles to effective cooperation. This book fills a theoretical gap in the literature on European internal security cooperation with a proven approach increasingly used in other scholarly fields.
This book was published as a special issue of European Security.
This book was published as a special issue of European Security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-92993-4 (9781032929934)
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Raphael Bossong | Mark Rhinard
Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation
The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods
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Raphael Bossong | Mark Rhinard
Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation
The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods
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12/2017
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Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation
The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods
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Persons
Raphael Bossong is a lecturer at the Europe University Viadrina, Germany. His research analyses EU security policy from the perspective of public administration and organizational theory, with an emphasis on the fight against terrorism and civilian crisis management.
Mark Rhinard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He specializes in international cooperation on complex threats, with special attention placed on internal and external security cooperation in the European Union.
Mark Rhinard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He specializes in international cooperation on complex threats, with special attention placed on internal and external security cooperation in the European Union.
Content
1. European internal security as a public good 2. Understanding European asylum cooperation under the Schengen/Dublin system: a public goods framework 3. Public good theory and the 'added value' of the EU's anti-terrorism policy 4. Evolving patterns of internal security cooperation: lessons from the Schengen and Pruem laboratories 5. EU police and judicial cooperation before the Treaty of Lisbon: strengthening of the weakest link? 6. Green consumer markets in the fight against climate change 7. Explaining civil protection cooperation in the EU: the contribution of public goods theory