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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Marmara University, Institute of European Studies, Department of European Union Politics and International Relations (English), Turkey
Approval Date: 2005
Thesis Language: English
Student: OĞUZ SERİN
Supervisor: Armağan Emre Çakır
Abstract:
Through an examination of the perspectives on terror of the EU itself and some of its memberstates individually this work poses the question of whether the EU in its battle with terrorismis operating on an intergovernmental or supranational level.The Al Qaeda terrorist organisation has indelibly marked the opening years of the 21stcentury by adding a new international dimension to terror. Given the international nature ofthis new terror it is clear that states operating alone can no longer face the challenge. Insteadthe struggle calls for a level of cooperation and coordination unhindered by national bordersor interests.In becoming the power it is today the EU created the three-pillar system on which to base its institutions: economy, justice and home affairs, and security and foreign policy. It is the latter two which constitute the base from which the struggle against terror is to be coordinated andimplemented, and yet, it is these two which have yet to move from the intergovernmental approach based on interstate negotiation and unanimous decision making, to the supranational approach of centralised majority decision making.