Nieformalne struktury państw Unii Europejskiej w walce z międzynarodowym terroryzmem. Bilans współpracy i wyzwania
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2010
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Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Dziennikarstwa UAM
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The informal structures of the European Union employed in the struggle against international
terrorism can be divided into those emerging inside the European Community, and
those involving the states outside the EC, or third parties. The emergence of informal structures
to fight terrorism resulted from the observation that the then EC did not cooperate to
fight terrorism. In the 1960s and 1970s the increasing problem of terrorism stimulated efforts
to look for ways to deal with it. It would have been a good solution to begin cooperation in the
field of internal security on a Community scale, yet this approach stirred too many controversies
and fears. Additionally, a general disinterest in political cooperation at that time made
some states begin building informal structures aimed at the exchange of information on terrorist
threats. It is worth emphasizing that the structures discussed in this paper (i.e. groups and
clubs) are to a certain extent an element of European intelligence, as they involve intelligence
agencies, structures operating within EU countries and outside, and the cooperation or synergy
of intelligence provided by various mechanisms and activities. The cooperation within
the framework of such structures goes beyond the EU and Europe, thus becoming more effective
in fighting international, modern, globalized, non-territorial terrorism of a network character.
Therefore, although the European Union has been conducting its own policy against
terrorism involving all its member states, these informal structures with third parties will continue
to play an important part in anti-terrorist cooperation between states that are at particular
risk of terrorist activity.
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Przegląd Politologiczny, 2010, nr 3, s. 45-54.