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Fighting terrorism at the local level : the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity
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Melhuish, Francesca and Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2022) Fighting terrorism at the local level : the European Union, radicalisation prevention and the negotiation of subsidiarity. European Security, 31 (2). pp. 313-333. doi:10.1080/09662839.2021.2009458
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2021.2009458
Abstract
In this article, we investigate how the EU mobilises a spatio-temporal imaginary of the ‘local’ in its counter-radicalisation activities as a means of navigating subsidiarity principles and expanding its remit as a ‘holistic security actor’ (cf. Baker-Beall, 2016). Extant work on the EU’s terrorism prevention efforts has focused on how the organisation constructs transnational terror threats that require supranational, EU-level responses. Our research makes an original contribution to these literatures by demonstrating how the EU also seeks to intervene ‘below’ the level of the nation state. EU counter-radicalisation works directly with subnational actors in municipalities, cities, and front-line public services across member states. Employing the first systematic analysis of the EU’s Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) outputs, we demonstrate how ‘the local’ frames pre-emptive counter-terrorism interventions as ‘upstream’. “Closer”, or “localised”, reads as “earlier” in this discourse. We also unpack how EU institutions and Member States have voiced concerns about the circumvention of subsidiarity (through engagement with local actors across the Union), by criticising the ‘effectiveness’ of RAN. Whilst the European Commission has taken steps towards addressing these grievances, its proposals reflect a further renegotiation and repositioning of the EU as a security ‘facilitator’ across spaces deemed simultaneously local, and transnational.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Radicalization -- Prevention -- European Union countries, Terrorism -- Prevention -- European Union countries, National security -- European Union countries | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Security | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 31 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 313-333 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09662839.2021.2009458 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 November 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 December 2021 | ||||||||
| Funder: | European Research Council | ||||||||
| Grant number: | 851022 | ||||||||
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