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The European Union has made remarkable, unprecedented advances in both external and internal security integration. """"Epistemic communities"""" of ambassadors, military generals, scientists, and other experts who supersede national governments in the diplomacy of security decision making are taking advantage of their shared expertise, common culture, professional norms, and frequent meetings to forge new levels of collaboration. Mai'a K. Davis Cross brings together numerous personal interviews and recent government documents across five separate case studies to construct a microsociological account of how EU governance really works and what future role the EU is likely to play internationally.

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The author is to be commended for focusing on an often-overlooked aspect of EU policymaking: how groups of individuals who have specialized knowledge can impact the European integration process. ... [Security Integration in Europe]is valuable as a rare glimpse into the EU s byzantine bureaucracy and technocratic operating culture. Political Science Quarterly--Andrew T. Wolfe, Dickinson College Political Science Quarterly

University Association for Contemporary European Studies Best Book Prize in Contemporary European Studies--Best Book Prize UACES (09/07/2012) The author is to be commended for focusing on an often-overlooked aspect of EU policymaking: how groups of individuals who have specialized knowledge can impact the European integration process. ... [Security Integration in Europe]is valuable as a rare glimpse into the EU s byzantine bureaucracy and technocratic operating culture. Political Science Quarterly--Andrew T. Wolfe, Dickinson College Political Science Quarterly Distinguishing the role of knowledge and expertise in political decision making is a long-standing challenge for scholars of international politics, including those who focus on arenas with dense networks of policy experts, such as the EU. Security Integration in Europe takes on this question, and provides a number of interesting insights into how and when epistemic communities matter for security policymaking, as well as documenting the surprising range of internal and external security issues that have been taken on by the EU in recent decades. Jim Walsh, H-Net Reviews--Jim Walsh H-Net Reviews (12/01/2012) This book, which draws on impressive first-hand research, is highly recommended to scholars, policy makers and all those interested in understanding how security integration has been unfolding in Europe. Yasemin Irepoglu, EUSAReview--Yasemin Irepoglu EUSA Review

The author is to be commended for focusing on an often‐overlooked aspect of EU policymaking: how groups of individuals who have specialized knowledge can impact the European integration process. ... [ Security Integration in Europe ] is valuable as a rareglimpse into the EU's byzantine bureaucracy and technocratic operating culture. --- Political Science Quarterly --Andrew T. Wolfe, Dickinson College Political Science Quarterly

University Association for Contemporary European Studies Best Book Prize in Contemporary European Studies--Best Book Prize UACES (09/07/2012)

The author is to be commended for focusing on an often-overlooked aspect of EU policymaking: how groups of individuals who have specialized knowledge can impact the European integration process. ... [ Security Integration in Europe ]is valuable as a rare glimpse into the EU s byzantine bureaucracy and technocratic operating culture. Political Science Quarterly --Andrew T. Wolfe, Dickinson College Political Science Quarterly

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Mai'a K. Davis Cross is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

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