Xymena Kurowska is an Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest in the department of International Relations and European Studies. Her research concentrates on interdisciplinary approaches to EU's security policy, international statebuilding and security theory. She is further interested in interpretive policy analysis and ethnographic methods in IR.

Patryk Pawlak is a Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris where he deals with transatlantic relations and the EU internal security. His research focuses in particular on the interaction between internal and external dimensions of security in such areas as border management as well as information and intelligence sharing.

Foreword Gilles de Kerchove 1. Introduction: The Politics of European Security Policies Xymena Kurowska and Patryk Pawlak Part 1: Policy, Politics and Security in Horizontal Policy Debates 2. EU Security Policies and the Pillar Structure: A Legal Analysis Vincenzo Randazzo 3. 'Solana Milieu': Framing Security Policy Xymena Kurowska 4. The European Security Agenda and the 'External Dimension' of EU Asylum and Migration Cooperation Meng-Hsuan Chou Part 2: Policy, Politics and Security in EU Relations with Third Parties 5. Network Politics in Transatlantic Homeland Security Cooperation Patryk Pawlak [...]opol: A New Player in the EU External Policy Field? Gregory Mounier 7. Portraying Normative Legitimacy: The EU in Need of Institutional Safeguards for Human Rights Katrin Kinzelbach and Julia Kozma 8. The Securitisation of the EU's Development Agenda in Africa: Insights from Guinea-Bissau Marie V. Gibert 9. Postscipt: The Politics of the EU's Security Policies after the Lisbon Treaty Xymena Kurowska