 | Fighting Terrorism and Drugs: Europe and International Police Cooperation Subjects: Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; British Politics; European Politics; Criminology and Criminal Justice; European Union Politics; International Relations; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; French Politics; German Politics; Italian Politics; European Integration; European Union Policy; International Relations Theory; Terrorism; Crime Control; Fighting Terrorism and Drugs is annbsp;examination ofnbsp;European states in their fightnbsp;against terrorism and drugs, from the 1960snbsp;up to the present day. Jörg Friedrichsnbsp;explores what makesnbsp;large European states willing or unwilling tonbsp;participate in international police cooperation against terrorism and drugs. The book examines forty-eightnbsp;case studies, with particular regard to the policy preferencesnbsp;of the four largest andnbsp;most politically important EU Member States: Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. The author argues that if a real understanding ofnbsp;international cooperation is to develop, it is important to understand whatnbsp;individual states want and why they want it.nbsp;To explain state preferences, Friedrichs considers interests, institutions and ideas from domestic, national and international levels thatnbsp;can affect state preferences either positively or negatively. This theoretically coherent book looks at international police cooperation from a truly international perspective and will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, terrorism, criminology,nbsp;international law and Europeannbsp;integration. Jörg Friedrichs is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, UK. He wrote this book as a Research Associate at IUB (International University Bremen) and as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. |
