Patchwork of counterterrorism
| Autor: | Silvia D’Amato |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 050601 international relations 0506 political science Variety (cybernetics) Conceptual framework Political economy Political science Political Science and International Relations Terrorism Key (cryptography) |
| Zdroj: | International Studies Review |
| Popis: | The overlapping of a series of events in the region has brought the Sahel under the spotlight of many European countries. It has been argued that the peculiar transnational nature of many terrorist groups of the area represents a concrete threat to European security. France, specifically, has led and encouraged a series of European initiatives, which aim to stabilize the region, calling for different degrees of counterterrorism cooperation with its European allies. Many European countries, such as Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, or Italy, have indeed increased their engagement in the area. Yet, not only a variety of new actors are now involved in the response to terrorism, but European cooperation among key actors is also developing along political-strategic, organizational, and procedural dimensions largely unexplored by the existing literature. This paper specifically accounts for the different multilevel configurations of European counterterrorism cooperation in the Sahel between 2012 and 2018. More specifically, the aim of this contribution is twofold. First, theoretically, through the concept of “patchwork” the paper proposes a conceptual framework able to investigate and analyze the apparently confusing multidimensional and multi-actor European cooperation in counterterrorism. Second, it empirically researches and analyzes the types of cooperation and the actors that fulfil key strategic positions in the patchwork. Overall, this paper provides a first complete account of the universe of European actors involved in the region and the types of cooperative patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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