Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also Professor of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net).Sarah Léonard is Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Prior to taking up her post at UWE Bristol, Sarah was Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and Associate Professor in International Affairs at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).​

• Introduction - Two Decades of EU Counter-Terrorism: Between Collective Securitization and Crisification 1. EU counter-terrorism 20 years after 9/11: "common threat" and "common response"? 2. EU measures to combat terrorist financing since 9/11: efficient, but not very effective 3. Still the absent friend? The European Union’s global counter-terrorism role after twenty years 4. The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism 5. Electoral cost of the European Union promoted norms: Erdogan’s counter-terrorism impasse 6. The new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda: preemptive security through the anticipation of terrorist events 7. EU counterterrorism, collective securitization, and the internal-external security nexus 8. The evolution of information-sharing in EU counter-terrorism post-2015: a paradigm shift? 9. The key elements of the LIBE Committee’s compromise proposal on e-evidence: a critical overview through a fundamental rights lens 10. Emerging challenges for combating the financing of terrorism in the European Union: financing of violent right-wing extremism and misuse of new technologies 11. Securitization across borders – commonalities and contradictions in European and Arab counterterrorism discourses 12. Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds 13. Legitimacy and EU security and defence policy: the chimera of a simulacrum 14. European security and defence in the shadow of Brexit 15. Diversified in unity: the agenda for the geopolitical European Commission 16. A dangerous middle-ground: terrorists, counter-terrorists, and gray-zone conflict

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also Professor of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net).Sarah Léonard is Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Prior to taking up her post at UWE Bristol, Sarah was Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and Associate Professor in International Affairs at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).​

• Introduction - Two Decades of EU Counter-Terrorism: Between Collective Securitization and Crisification 1. EU counter-terrorism 20 years after 9/11: "common threat" and "common response"? 2. EU measures to combat terrorist financing since 9/11: efficient, but not very effective 3. Still the absent friend? The European Union’s global counter-terrorism role after twenty years 4. The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism 5. Electoral cost of the European Union promoted norms: Erdogan’s counter-terrorism impasse 6. The new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda: preemptive security through the anticipation of terrorist events 7. EU counterterrorism, collective securitization, and the internal-external security nexus 8. The evolution of information-sharing in EU counter-terrorism post-2015: a paradigm shift? 9. The key elements of the LIBE Committee’s compromise proposal on e-evidence: a critical overview through a fundamental rights lens 10. Emerging challenges for combating the financing of terrorism in the European Union: financing of violent right-wing extremism and misuse of new technologies 11. Securitization across borders – commonalities and contradictions in European and Arab counterterrorism discourses 12. Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds 13. Legitimacy and EU security and defence policy: the chimera of a simulacrum 14. European security and defence in the shadow of Brexit 15. Diversified in unity: the agenda for the geopolitical European Commission 16. A dangerous middle-ground: terrorists, counter-terrorists, and gray-zone conflict

Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland. He is also Professor of Policing and Security, as well as Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net).Sarah Léonard is Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Prior to taking up her post at UWE Bristol, Sarah was Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and Associate Professor in International Affairs at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).​

• Introduction - Two Decades of EU Counter-Terrorism: Between Collective Securitization and Crisification 1. EU counter-terrorism 20 years after 9/11: "common threat" and "common response"? 2. EU measures to combat terrorist financing since 9/11: efficient, but not very effective 3. Still the absent friend? The European Union’s global counter-terrorism role after twenty years 4. The collective securitization of aviation in the European Union through association with terrorism 5. Electoral cost of the European Union promoted norms: Erdogan’s counter-terrorism impasse 6. The new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda: preemptive security through the anticipation of terrorist events 7. EU counterterrorism, collective securitization, and the internal-external security nexus 8. The evolution of information-sharing in EU counter-terrorism post-2015: a paradigm shift? 9. The key elements of the LIBE Committee’s compromise proposal on e-evidence: a critical overview through a fundamental rights lens 10. Emerging challenges for combating the financing of terrorism in the European Union: financing of violent right-wing extremism and misuse of new technologies 11. Securitization across borders – commonalities and contradictions in European and Arab counterterrorism discourses 12. Islamic extremism and the war for hearts and minds 13. Legitimacy and EU security and defence policy: the chimera of a simulacrum 14. European security and defence in the shadow of Brexit 15. Diversified in unity: the agenda for the geopolitical European Commission 16. A dangerous middle-ground: terrorists, counter-terrorists, and gray-zone conflict