Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation: The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods

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Raphael Bossong (Europa Universitat Viadrina, Germany) Mark Rhinard

Explaining EU Internal Security Cooperation

The Problem(s) of Producing Public Goods

Raphael Bossong (Europa Universitat Viadrina, Germany), Mark Rhinard

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Routledge
14 October 2024

EU & European institutions; Warfare & defence

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.

Edited by: Raphael Bossong (Europa Universitat Viadrina Germany), Mark Rhinard
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 280g
ISBN: 9781032929934
ISBN 10: 1032929936
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 14 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.