MACMILLAN The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Enlarged Europe (One Europe or Several?)

Building an 'area of freedom, security and justice' is one of the European Union's more recent goals. Enlarging to include ten new member states is its most recent achievement. However, there has been relatively little analysis of the challenges faced in pursuing the two aims at the same time. The administrations and police forces of post-communist states have had to be radically transformed in order to deal with problems such as organized crime and terrorism and securing the border-free Europe and coping with the pressures of asylum-seekers and illegal migrants, while at the same time assuring not just internal security for their citizens, but also freedom and justice. Combining contributions from specialists in both old and new member states, this book looks at how the tasks have been tackled, with a particular focus on the view from within the new EU countries in East Central Europe. About the Author KAREN HENDERSON is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research has focused on EU eastern enlargement and the domestic politics of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Her publications include Slovakia: The Escape from Invisibility (2002), Back to Europe: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union (editor, 1999) and Post-Communist Politics (with Neil Robinson, 1997).