Security and Border Security Policies: Perimeter or Smart Border?

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (1)

1 PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales

Did the traumatic act of September 11, 2001, lead European and North American governments to reconsider their security regimes and their border security policies in particular? Canada and the United States brokered the Smart Border Agreement while the European Union member-states elected to work together to build an area of freedom, security and justice. As both of these free trade regimes increasingly integrated, security costs also increased. The European Union abolished borders between member-states in order to concentrate resources on
external borders and co-operate on security issues. In North America, each state reinvested in border security and increased co-operation.

Mots clés: Border security policies; Canadian American Border; European Border

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly. Security and Border Security Policies: Perimeter or Smart Border?: A Comparison of the European Union and Canadian American Border Security Regimes. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2006, 21 (1), pp. 03-22. ⟨halshs-00379905⟩