Paper Titles & Abstracts

Academic literature revolving around Frontex has mushroomed over the last years. Since its inception legal and political science scholarship has dealt with numerous aspects of Frontex including its emergence, legitimacy, legalization and the practice of external border control. What has received less attention, however, is how Frontex hasinteracted with other EU agencies and international organisations. It is the main objective of this paper to analyse the various forms of horizontal interactions between these various agencies/organizations and ask whether these relations have either enhanced a security-obsessed "Fortress Europe" or, conversely, strengthened a human rights-promoting EU as a 'Union of Values'.Relying mainly on organization theory we conceive interagency interaction between Frontex and other agencies as a continuum ranging from cooperation via coordination to conflict. Empirically, we will deal with those two kinds of agencies that pursue, roughly spoken, either security goals (Europol, the European Satellite Agency or the European Maritime Safety Agency) or human rights objectives (Fundamental Rights Agency, European Asylum Support Office or UNHCR).