Guest conference : Monica den Boer, who holds a Chair at the VU University Amsterdam on behalf of the Police Academy of The Netherlands and is a Member of the Committee on European Integration.
She obtained a PhD in 1990 from the European University Institute and worked at Edinburgh University, the Netherlands Study Centre for Crime and Law Enforcement, the European Institute of Public Administration, Tilburg University, and the European Institute of Law Enforcement Co-operation.
She was a member of the Dutch Iraq Investigation Committee, as well as the Defence Future Survey Group. Her research focuses on European internal security co-operation.
Summary
Recent security strategies have been restyled and focus on the fusion between internal and external security. The EU Security Strategy has advocated an integrated strategy with a prominent position for preventive interventions. The comprehensive security strategy rests on a diffuse threat analysis.
This presentation aims at an inventory and assessment of the effectiveness of instruments and technologies used in European preventive security governance, such as future-oriented intelligence-gathering and surveillance by means of electronic monitoring and data-sharing, risk assessments and threat analysis. A blurring between police and military, public and private, national and international governance demands new parameters to ensure procedural legitimacy and proactive security interventions may be ill at ease with the legitimacy of the EU as a security actor: what can be done to maximize trust, scrutiny and democratic legitimacy?
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Conférence présentée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée
