The Transformation of Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism 2001-2025

该研究金涉及当前反恐中两个突出和相互关联的问题。首先，自9/11以来，跨大西洋地区的反恐组织为什么以及如何发生了变化？第二，鉴于缺乏信任仍然是阻碍更好地进行信息交流的主要因素，如何改善这种情况？这些主题被整合在三个研究问题：1/后福特主义的概念框架是否增强了对跨大西洋CT转型的理解？2.这种转变对信任和信息交流有何影响？3、如何提高信任度？为了解决这些问题，奖学金遵循两个研究方向。第一个解决了公认的缺乏理论在美国和欧盟CT组织的文献中，提供了一个重大的新的理论解释的CT情报和警务的深刻转变，因为9/11。它将应用最初用于工业社会学的后福特主义框架，以更好地了解CT社区所采用的组织解决方案。当放置在更广泛的社会变革背景下，后福特主义的外包的中央组织原则;网络方法;核心-外围划分;和集中化和去中心化将在理解为什么以及如何跨大西洋CT转型发生了新的突破。其他军事社会学理论将提供启发性的新视角，自上而下的创新或自下而上的适应性变革的驱动因素;专业地位和组织能力的发展;警察CT反应的军事化;以及这种转变对组织凝聚力、信任和联系的影响，提供迄今为止最丰富的社会学分析。基于三年的研究和利用申请人独特的CT网络，第二部分是在第一部分结束之后，通过试点和完善跨大西洋CT卓越中心（CoE）来发展信任和能力建设。实践者认为，迫切需要帮助建立中层业务人员之间的信任，它将通过制定一个侧重于分享业务和组织经验教训、术语标准化和建立信任的教学大纲来实现这一点。正如支持信函所表明的那样，成功地交付示范中心将产生重大的国际实际影响。在后福特主义转型背景下，它还将生成有关该领域信任建设和联络的新数据。自9/11以来，跨大西洋CT发生了转变，后福特主义最好地解释了这一点，这是有争议的。转型并不统一，许多国家的CT组织仍然抵制或无法改变。然而，有证据表明，后福特主义解释了CT组织的广泛轨迹。为了证明这一点，该项目将首先收集美国，欧盟和选定的欧盟成员国CT组织在9/11之前的数据，以建立一个比较的证据基础，使用主要和次要来源。第二，使用采访的决策者和从业人员参与组织变革，后福特主义框架的适用性将进行分析，沿着与自上而下和自下而上的CT转型的驱动程序。第三，使用从业者访谈和实地考察观察，一些较低层次的微观社会学方面的CT转型将进行检查，如警察CT反应的军事化和专业的重要性。第四，组织凝聚力，在CT社区的信任和联络将通过与卓越中心与会者的接触进行检查。咨询委员会的高级从业人员将确保研究监督，同时在研究金结束时将举行一次会议，阐述从这两个方面吸取的主要经验教训。

This fellowship addresses two salient and inter-related questions in current counter-terrorism. First, why and how have counter-terrorism organisations in the transatlantic space transformed since 9/11? Second, given that a lack of trust remains a key inhibitor for better information exchange, how can it be improved? These themes are integrated in three research questions: 1/ Does a Post-Fordist conceptual framework enhance understanding of transatlantic CT transformation? 2/ What are the implications of this transformation for trust and information exchange? 3/ How can trust be improved?To address these questions the fellowship follows two research strands. The first addresses an acknowledged lack of theory in the literature on US and EU CT organisation by providing a major new theoretical explanation of the profound transformation of CT intelligence and policing since 9/11. It will apply a Post-Fordist framework originally used in industrial sociology to better understand the organisational solutions adopted by CT communities. When placed in the wider context of societal change, Post-Fordism's central organisational tenets of outsourcing; a network approach; core-periphery divide; and centralisation and de-centralisation will break new ground in understanding why and how transatlantic CT transformation has occurred. Other military sociology theories will give illuminating new perspectives on top-down innovative or bottom-up adaptive drivers of transformation; the development of professional status and organisational capabilities; the militarisation of police CT responses; and the implications of this transformation for organisational cohesion, trust and liaison, providing the richest sociological analysis to date.Building on three years of research and exploiting the applicant's unique CT network, the second strand follows the end of strand 1 by developing trust and capacity building through the pilot and refinement of a transatlantic CT Centre of Excellence (CoE). Identified by practitioners as sorely needed to help build trust between mid-level operational personnel, it will do so through the development of a syllabus focused on the sharing of operational and organisational lessons, the standardisation of terminology, and the development of trust. As demonstrated by the supporting letters, successful delivery of the CoE will have major international practical impact. With the Post-Fordist transformation context, it will also generate new data on trust building and liaison in this domain. The argument that there has been a transformation of transatlantic CT since 9/11, and that Post-Fordism best explains this, is controversial. Transformation has not been uniform, and many national CT organisations remain resistant, or unable, to change. Nevertheless, there is evidence to suggest that Post-Fordism explains the broad trajectory of CT organisation. To make this argument, the project will first gather data on US, EU and selected EU Member States CT organisation prior to 9/11 to establish a comparative evidential base using primary and secondary sources. Second, using interviews with policymakers and practitioners involved in organisational change, the applicability of the Post-Fordist framework will be analysed, along with top-down and bottom-up drivers of CT transformation. Third, using practitioner interviews and fieldwork observations, some of the lower-level micro sociological aspects of this CT transformation will be examined, such as the militarisation of police CT responses and the importance of professionalism. Fourth, organisational cohesion, trust and liaison in the CT community will be examined through engagement with CoE attendees. Senior practitioners on the Advisory Board will ensure research oversight, while a conference to elucidate key lessons learnt from both strands will occur towards the end of the fellowship.