Mutual Trust in Regional and Interregional Cooperation on Counterterrorism

lt;p>Dr. Céline C. Cocq is a legal officer at one of the Juridiction interregional spécialisée (JIRS) in France. Her expertise covers traditional security issues and transnational criminal matters at the regional and international levels: counterterrorism, cooperation mechanisms, data sharing, armed conflicts and human/humanitarian law. She holds a PhD in law delivered jointly by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Geneva. She also holds a LL.M. in public international law (ULB, 2012), a Master II in international humanitarian law (University of Aix-Marseille, 2010) and University Diplomas in criminology and criminal justice (University of Lille II, 2005 and 2011). Besides her experience as a legal and policy analyst at the benefit of European institutions, she has worked in public institutions dealing with counterterrorism, serious transnational crime and human rights, such as the UNODC Regional Office in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Europol, French Embassy and tribunal.

Introduction.- Definitions of key concepts: In search of a common language to facilitate cross-border coordination.- Mutual trust: A variable concept in facilitating cross-border cooperation in criminal matters.- Regional integration: Tailoring one's institutional and legal architecture.- The symbiotic relations between regional counter-terrorism arsenals and mutual trust: The different outcomes of the three tier vertical normative dialogues.- Sharing data with peers from the same region: A matter of mutual trust.- Finding a path thourgh multiheaded inter regional relations in counterterrorism: What place for mutual trust in the EU-ASEAN dialogue?.- Conclusion.