CIAO DATE: 9/07
Culture and Conflict: Volume 56 (Winter 2005)
This article analyses the European civil aviation security policy developed in the European Union since the September 11th events. In order to better understand the original characteristics of such policies, the author examines the intergovernmental approach that had been since then prevailing, and in particular through negotiated conventions within international organizations. The author later analyses the developing policy with regards to the anti terrorist action plan starting October 2001 and reflecting EU internal institutional games as well as existing power games between the various security public and private actors. He eventually tries to formulate this policy’s stakes in terms of the vision of security it carries, and which is characterized by the major use of control technologies and the alignment on US practices..