Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy as well as Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.John Occhipinti is Professor in Politics, Director of European Studies, and Departmental Chair at Canisius College Buffalo, USA. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.Sarah Leonard is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Jean Monnet Coordinator of the PhD Summer School in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, as well as Deputy Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Police, policy and politics in Brussels: scenarios for the shift from sovereignty to solidarity 3. EU cooperation on terrorism prevention and violent radicalization: frustrated ambitions or new forms of EU security governance? 4. Whither the withering democratic deficit? The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 5. Tacit procedural politics: institutional change and member states’ strategies in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters 6. Tempering the EU? NGO advocacy in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 7. The EU’s growing external role in the AFSJ domain: factors, framework and forms of action 8. Exporting EU integrated border management beyond EU borders: modernization and institutional transformation in exchange for more mobility?

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy as well as Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.John Occhipinti is Professor in Politics, Director of European Studies, and Departmental Chair at Canisius College Buffalo, USA. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.Sarah Leonard is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Jean Monnet Coordinator of the PhD Summer School in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, as well as Deputy Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Police, policy and politics in Brussels: scenarios for the shift from sovereignty to solidarity 3. EU cooperation on terrorism prevention and violent radicalization: frustrated ambitions or new forms of EU security governance? 4. Whither the withering democratic deficit? The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 5. Tacit procedural politics: institutional change and member states’ strategies in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters 6. Tempering the EU? NGO advocacy in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 7. The EU’s growing external role in the AFSJ domain: factors, framework and forms of action 8. Exporting EU integrated border management beyond EU borders: modernization and institutional transformation in exchange for more mobility?

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy as well as Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.John Occhipinti is Professor in Politics, Director of European Studies, and Departmental Chair at Canisius College Buffalo, USA. He is Co-Director of the EUSA special interest section on the AFSJ.Sarah Leonard is Senior Lecturer in Politics, Jean Monnet Coordinator of the PhD Summer School in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, as well as Deputy Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

• 1. Introduction 2. Police, policy and politics in Brussels: scenarios for the shift from sovereignty to solidarity 3. EU cooperation on terrorism prevention and violent radicalization: frustrated ambitions or new forms of EU security governance? 4. Whither the withering democratic deficit? The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 5. Tacit procedural politics: institutional change and member states’ strategies in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters 6. Tempering the EU? NGO advocacy in the Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice 7. The EU’s growing external role in the AFSJ domain: factors, framework and forms of action 8. Exporting EU integrated border management beyond EU borders: modernization and institutional transformation in exchange for more mobility?