Playing the Market Card: The Commission's Strategy to Shape EU Cybersecurity Policy
研究了欧盟委员会如何利用市场与安全的关联，在成员国主导的网络安全政策领域发挥更大作用，对关注欧盟治理和网络安全政策的学者有参考价值。
Abstract As EU security is an intergovernmental policy area, it has been assumed that the only relevant policy‐shapers are member states. However, more recent analyses show that supranational actors, like the Commission, have developed strategies to enhance their role in this traditionally interstate realm. This article endorses this reasoning and intends to cast some light on these strategies. Building on Kingdon's concept of the policy entrepreneur and using EU's cybersecurity policy as an empirical case, we analyse the Commission's initiatives to draft a European response to cybercrime, in order to answer one central research question: how has the Commission managed to secure a prominent role in a highly salient security issue? The findings suggest that the Commission, acting as a policy entrepreneur, purposefully explored a market–security nexus in order to influence an otherwise intergovernmental security domain. Ultimately, the Commission was a much more relevant player than expected.