The EU Security Continuum by Alistair J.K. Shepherd

Author:Alistair J.K. Shepherd [Shepherd, Alistair J.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, General, Political Science, Political Freedom, International Relations
ISBN: 9781317388968
Google: cGA4EAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-05T16:04:11+00:00

Organised crime in foreign and security policy: tackling organised crime from outside-in

Having outlined some of the ways in which the EU’s efforts to tackle OC have blurred geographic, bureaucratic, and functional boundaries from the inside-out via the externalisation of internal security policies, agencies, and resources, this section examines the ways in which these boundaries have been challenged from the outside-in, via the use of foreign and security policy tools in tackling OC. Since the early 2000s, tackling OC became increasingly prominent in the EU’s external security policies, strategies, and actions, including in development policy, enlargement, partnerships, and CFSP and CSDP. Simultaneously, internal security strategies were calling for a greater role for external policies and instruments in tackling OC, especially through CSDP. The emergence of OC as a focus for EU foreign and security policies was confirmed in the 2003 ESS, which stated that ‘this internal threat to our security has an important external dimension’ notably through cross-border trafficking (European Council 2003: 4). The foreign and security dimensions of OC were strengthened through the connection between OC and ‘weak or failing states’, with the EU claiming OC undermined state structures and fuelled conflict (Ibid). Finally, the ESS highlighted a new dimension of OC, maritime piracy. The connection between CSDP and tackling OC was made early in CSDP’s (then ESDP) evolution through the development of civilian crisis management capabilities, including up to 5,000 police officers, as well as judicial and administrative experts, illustrating the functional blurring of the EU’s approach to security. The 2004 Action Plan for Civilian Aspects of ESDP urged that

links between civilian crisis management activities and the Justice and Home Affairs pillar should be further explored and strengthened… . In particular, the Chiefs of Police, as key stakeholders, are encouraged to actively and jointly engage in police aspects of civilian crisis management.

(Council of the EU 2004b: 6)

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