European institutions are either loathed or underestimated This book analyses the role of EU institutions in the area of European internal security From Justice and Home Affairs this area has become more like a European Area of Freedom Security and Justice In this process the European Commission has demonstrably played the role of an `engine of integration in areas such a counter terrorism policing asylum migration and border management This book uses the framework of supranational policy entrepeuners SPE those who stand at the policy window in order to propose lobby for and sell `their policy proposal and synthesises it with insights from the literature on norm entrepreneurship This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners interested in European internal security European integration terrorism security studies and international relations
