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Book abstract:
This work provides an analysis of the internal security challenges faced by the EU from cross-border organised crime and illegal immigration. It examines the nature of those challenges and explores the policies and structures both developed and developing within the EU to deal with these problems.
Organised over five chapters, the first chapter provides background to the EU role as an internal security player and analysis of the progress made in the period between Maastricht and the Amsterdam Treaty. Chapter two argues the different values threatened by organised crime and immigration and the need for analysis in terms of political, economic and societal issues. The growth of these problems in the post cold-war era with its breakdown in centrally controlled societies is explored in chapter three. Asylum, immigration and external border control policies are featured in chapter four, which reviews the governance structures and the legislative measures developed by the EU in response to organised crime and illegal immigration since the Treaty of Amsterdam. The challenges posed by enlargement to Eastern and Central European candidate countries and the progress made in preparation of those countries for membership are examined in chapter five. The concluding chapter presents an overall assessment of the EU's increasing role in the area of internal security and points to one or two problems which will have to be addressed.
The work will interest students and scholars in the fields of European Union studies, international law enforcement and immigration policies.
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