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<article>
  <title>Harmonisation via Socialisation: The Role of EU Agencies’ Staff in Stimulating Convergence of EU Internal Security Practices</title>
  <slug>harmonisation-via-socialisation-the-role-of-eu-agencies-staff-in-stimulating-convergence-of-eu-internal-security-practices</slug>
  <parent>
    <title>Volume 7, Issue 2</title>
  </parent>
  <post_type>
    <title>Research Article</title>
  </post_type>
  <year>2026</year>
  <volume>7</volume>
  <content><![CDATA[European Union (EU) agencies like Frontex (the European Border and 
Coast Guard Agency), Europol (the European Union Agency for Law 
Enforcement Cooperation) and the EUAA (the European Agency for 
Asylum) developed a substantial policy-influencing, operational, regulatory, and implementation-influencing capacity.
By developing standards and benchmarks, by training security staff 
all across the Union, as well as by overseeing that common rules and 
policies are implemented correctly, EU security agencies are more and 
more included in pinpointing political priorities, shaping security cultures, and developing foundational concepts (like those of risk and 
threat) upon which common interior policies are based. This Article 
explores the potential of EU agencies’ staff to socialise practitioners and 
decision-makers to certain security standards and practices and their 
perceptions of what public good they pursue (e.g., security vs. liberty).
The Article argues that socialisation should be understood not simply as 
the transmission of EU norms to national officials, but as a mechanism 
through which administrative practices, professional expectations and 
understandings of appropriate conduct can become increasingly shared 
across jurisdictions. In the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ), 
where political sensitivity and national responsibility constrain the scope 
for uniform legislation, interaction between agency staff and national 
practitioners can therefore constitute an alternative pathway towards 
administrative convergence. At the same time, its effects depend on the 
incentives and political priorities of national practitioners.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></content>
  <references />
  <keywords>EU agencies, socialisation, AFSJ, administrative convergence, harmonisation</keywords>
  <date>2026-10-26</date>
  <url>https://jlp.ibupress.com/articles/harmonisation-via-socialisation-the-role-of-eu-agencies-staff-in-stimulating-convergence-of-eu-internal-security-practices</url>
  <issue>2</issue>
  <pages>127-140</pages>
  <doi>10.69648/OXHW7180</doi>
  <language>en</language>
  <license>CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</license>
  <license_url>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</license_url>
  <pdf>https://jlp.ibupress.com/file/7tfTnbx3QXo/jlp-7-2-09-halilovic.pdf</pdf>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <first_name>Aida</first_name>
      <last_name>Halilovic</last_name>
      <affiliation>Maastricht University</affiliation>
      <country>Netherlands</country>
      <orcid>https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0145-1628</orcid>
      <ror>https://ror.org/02jz4aj89</ror>
      <corresponding>true</corresponding>
    </author>
  </authors>
  <journal>
    <title>Journal of Law And Politics</title>
    <issn>2671-342X</issn>
    <eissn>2671-3438</eissn>
    <publisher>Balkan University Press</publisher>
    <url>https://jlp.ibupress.com</url>
  </journal>
</article>