Room for Progress: Reinventing Euro-Atlantic Borders for a New Strategic Environment
Post-9/11 border reforms have reshaped U.S. and EU border management, but uneven coordination and bureaucratic fragmentation limit transatlantic progress.
In an era when states and their populations are increasingly subject to opportunities and risks associated with the global movement of people, states are rethinking border management.
This report is the product of two workshops held on border management in Brussels and Laredo, Texas. It addresses three arenas of significant change shared by the United States and the European Union: 1) new government organizations for controlling borders; 2) the use of information technology to secure borders; and 3) visa‐free travel policies.
Many factors—trade, geography, and history among them—are furthering the economic and political integration of the European Union and bringing Canada, Mexico, and the United States together into deeper economic and security partnerships. These transformations alone are driving change in border management.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Whom to Call? Government Organization for Managing Borders
III. Using Information Technology to Secure Borders
IV. Euro-Atlantic Visa Policy: Toward Next-Generation Visa-Free Travel
V. Conclusion
About the Global Program
The Global Program bridges policy advice, research, and candid dialogue to design effective migration policies, drawing on global evidence and anticipating the forces reshaping how people move.
