Anagnostakis, Dimitrios
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Room: B115
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Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4859
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Email: ldxda@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Topic
United States and European Union: A transatlantic counter-terrorism regime?
This research project seeks to examine the relationship between the United States and European Union in the issue-area of counter-terrorism.
Regime theory is used as a theoretical base in order the following questions to be raised and answered: 1) Has a nascent transatlantic regime emerged in the issue-area of counter-terrorism? 2) How has this international arrangement been formed?
The empirical data of the project will be drawn from the following cases: 1) The Container Security Initiative (CSI) and the 2004 EU-US agreement on customs cooperation 2) The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) data agreements 3) The EU-US agreements on mutual extradition and mutual legal assistance.
The main argument that this project seeks to advance is that a nascent regime has emerged through the cooperation of the two actors. The growing international security interdependence has created a fertile soil for the appearance of common regulatory mechanisms. The process of devising these mechanisms is not, however, without conflicts and clashes.
The conclusions that will be drawn from this research project will bear on both the empirical issue of the nature of the EU-US relationship and the theoretical issue of the relevance of regime theory for the analysis of this relationship.
Research Supervisors
Professor Wyn Rees
Primary Funding Source
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Research Centre(s) to which affiliated
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Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism (CST)
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Centre for the Study of European Governance (CSEG)
Research Interests
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Intelligence Studies
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Intelligence Organisations
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Strategic Studies
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Military History
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Terrorism
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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Warfare