European internal security as a public good

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European Civil Security Governance

“…Likewise, the academic debate on EU policies to protect its citizens is usually framed in terms of 'internal security ' (Mitsilegas et al, 2003;Bossong and Rhinard, 2013a), 'homeland security' (Rhinard and Boin, 2009;Kaunert et al, 2012) or 'societal security' . To avoid the negative connotations of homeland security, at least in so far as they exist from a European perspective, and especially in relation to the focus on the 'war on terror', the EU particularly sought to promote the notion of 'internal security', most notably through its Internal Security Strategy (Bossong and Rhinard, 2013b). Although EU internal security has been broadened to include areas like critical infrastructure protection, most people probably still associate the term with police and judicial cooperation regarding questions of crime, asylum and border protection and, more generally, with prosecution or prevention of individual crimes, rather than with response to crises and disasters with a wider social impact.…”

“…The Council voting dynamics discussed above, for instance, are common in the immediate aftermath of a crisis but may not always lead to practical, operational cooperation. Indeed, member states are sometimes more keen to declare their support for cooperation in this area than to actually cooperate (Bossong and Rhinard, 2013b).…”