This book provides an in-depth empirical analysis and theoretical history of the institutional development of EU police cooperation, with a focus on the creation and integration of Europol.
Presenting a thoroughly comprehensive analysis, the book systematically traces integration dynamics and the evolution of EU police cooperation over a 40-year period, assessing the influence of cross-country interdependencies, politicisation and policy entrepreneurship on Member States’ behaviour and institutional choice. By combining a wealth of sources including previously unpublished sources and personal insights from key decision-makers, it explores which driving factors shape processes of differentiation and integration in this sovereignty-sensitive policy domain, and how, and attempts to explain state preferences on international police cooperation in the light of major theories of European integration.
The book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in or on the fields of police cooperation, Justice and Home Affairs policy, EU governance and security studies, both at national and European level.
Author(s): Franca König
Series: Routledge Studies on Government and the European Union
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 307
City: London
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. EU Internal Security and Police Cooperation: Putting Theory into Perspective
An Empirical Overview of the State of Affairs
Applying Theories of European Integration to the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
From Words to Action: EU Police Cooperation through Time
2. The Trevi Group – Birthplace of European Police Cooperation
Sketching the TREVI Process: 1972–1976
The Community and Terrorism: Interconnected in Causes and Effects?
Politicisation and Public Pressure as Drivers of Common Action
The Influence of Police Officials and Other Subnational Actors
Institutional Choice in a Nutshell: State Preferences on the Three Dimensions of Differentiated Integration
3. Institutional Beginnings: The Europol Drugs Unit and Early Europol
The 1980s: First Attempts towards a Central European Body
The 1990s: Starting Point for a European Police Office
The Europol Convention as a Turning Point
Institutional Choice in a Nutshell: State Preferences on the Three Dimensions of Differentiated Integration
4. European Police Cooperation in the Early 2000s: Towards an EU Law Enforcement Agency
United in Diversity? EUCARIS, Prüm and Other Instances of Flexible Integration
The Europol Council Decision: Transferring Intergovernmental Cooperation to the EU Framework
Institutional Choice in a Nutshell: State Preferences on the Three Dimensions of Differentiated Integration
5. Snowballing into the Future? The Europol Regulation and Beyond
A Centre Approach on the Path to an Ever More Sophisticated EU Actor
The Europol Regulation
Brexit and Other Developments – Looking Back and Moving Forward?
Institutional Choice in a Nutshell: State Preferences on the Three Dimensions of Differentiated Integration
Conclusion and Discussion
Interdependence, Politicisation and Policy Entrepreneurship: Drivers of State Integration Preferences and Their Causal Mechanisms
Driving Factors across Issue Areas and Time
Shaping Preferences across the Three Dimensions of Differentiated Integration
The Road Ahead: Outlook into the Future
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
