Full Description
The EU plays an increasingly important role in issues such as the fight against organised crime and the management of migration flows, transforming the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) into a priority of the EU's political and legislative agenda.
This book investigates whether institutional change - the gradual communitarisation of the AFSJ - has triggered policy change, and in doing so, explores the nature and direction of this policy change. By analysing the role of the EU's institutions in a systematic, theory-informed and comparative way, it provides rich insights into the dynamics of EU decision-making in areas involving high stakes for human rights and civil liberties. Each chapter contains three sections examining:
the degree of policy change in the different AFSJ fields, ranging from immigration and counter-terrorism to data protection
the role of EU institutions in this process of change
a case study determining the mechanisms of change.
The book will be of interest to practitioners, students and scholars of European politics and law, EU policy-making, security and migration studies, as well as institutional change.
Contents
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, PART I: Introduction, 1. Setting the context: why EU institutions matter in justice and home affairs, 2. The analytical framework: EU institutions, policy change and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, PART II: Migration policies, 3. Asylum: limited policy change due to new norms ofinstitutional behaviour, 4. Borders: EU institutions fail to reconcile their agendas despite communitarisation, 5. Migration: differential institutionalisation and its effects, PART III: Internal security, 6. Counter- terrorism: supranational EU institutions seizing windows of opportunity, 7. Police cooperation: a reluctant dance with the supranational EU institutions, 8. Criminal law: institutional rebalancing and judicialisation as drivers of policy change, PART IV: Citizens' Europe, 9. Citizenship and integration: contiguity, contagion and evolution, 10. Data protection: the EU institutions' battle over data processing vs individual rights, 11. Civil justice: the contested nature of the scope of EU legislation, PART V: Conclusion, 12. A comparative view: understanding and explaining policy change in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Index
