Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper examines the EU Police Mission in the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) with a focus on its effects on everyday police work on the ground. The main argument is that the mission illustrates the ways in which its training and advisory activities work to foster logics and practices that feed into and reproduce the borders that have over the years been imposed, primarily through Israeli security practices. Operating under conditions of contested statehood, EUPOL COPPS promotes Palestinian policing activities based on particular spatial logics and actions as to the governance of the Palestinian population. The article presents new empirical material collected through interviews and document analysis. As such, it aims to build bridges between the literature on critical border studies, EU external relations, the EU’s role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as well as the literature on the EU police missions in conflict and post-conflict missions by emphasising their spatial dimension.
Highlights
Borders, space and territory remain crucial issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
We focus on the bordering work conducted by a non-state actor namely an European Union (EU) Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) mission (EUPOL COPPS), which has so far not been missing from the debate
The aim of this article has been to analyse EUPOL COPPS’ activities on the ground and to highlight how the mundane exercises of the mission do bordering through the transfer of particular conceptions and practices of governing mobility
Summary
Space and territory remain crucial issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Operating under conditions of contested statehood, EUPOL COPPS promotes Palestinian policing activities based on particular logics and actions as to the governance of the Palestinian population and space.
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